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Womens Islam (Hardcover)
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Womens Islam (Hardcover)
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After the 1979 revolution in Iran, the western media revealed
pictures of full-veiled Iranian women demonstrating in the streets
of Tehran to demand the death of the Shah and the downfall of his
regime. Many asked what it was that made these women reject the
nobility of the socio-economic modernity of the Shah's regime and
instead embrace Islamic belief widely presumed to be oppressive and
misogynistic--a religion in which women have no place and no
identity. Zahra Kamalkhani's new book goes behind the veil to
disprove this misconception and to look in detail at the complex
lives of the majority contemporary Muslim women. She deals with
Islamic beliefs and the religious tradition of women in the context
of modern political turmoil and addresses the false assumption that
a clear distinction can be made between the official Islam
practiced by men and the popular Islam practiced by women. In this
important study in Islamic anthropology, the author treats women as
actors in the interconnected domains of family, religious,
political and social contexts, all under the umbrella of Islam., in
order to generate new models for understanding the Muslim women of
today.
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