Windows of Faith: Muslim Women Scholar-Activists in North America edited by Gisela Webb.
Material type: TextSeries: Women and gender in North American religionsPublication details: Syracuse, NY : Syracuse University Press, 2000.Description: xxv, 295 p. ; 24 cmISBN:- 081562851X (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0815628528 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- English
- HQ 1170 .W52 2000
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Books | Oman Library Women's Collection | HQ 1170 .W52 2000 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 30347000018844 |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-280) and index. Contents: Introduction: "May Muslim women speak for themselves, please?" / Gisela Webb -- Alternative Qur�anic interpretation and the status of Muslim women / Amina Wadud -- Muslim women's Islamic higher learning as a human right: theory and practice / Nimat Hafez Barazangi -- An introduction to Muslim women's rights / Azizah Y. Al-Hibri -- Women's self-identity in the Qur�an and Islamic law / Maysam J. Al-Faruqi -- Her honor: an Islamic critique of the rape laws of Pakistan from a woman-sensitive perspective / Asifa Quraishi -- The scholar and the Fatwa: legal issues facing African American and immigrant Muslim communities in the United States / Aminah Beverly McCloud -- Braiding the stories: women's eloquence in the early Islamic era / Mohja Kahf -- Reading the signs: unfolding truth and the transformation of authority / Rabia Terri Harris -- Striving for Muslim women's human rights- before and beyond Beijing: an African American perspective / Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons -- Is family planning permitted by Islam: the issue of a woman's right to contraception / Riffat Hassan -- Appendixes: A. Human rights in the Qur�anic perspective / Riffat Hassan ; B. A partial list of organizations for Muslim women's rights, advocacy, and higher Islamic education in the United States / Kareema Altomare.
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