Muslim Women in America: The Challenge of Islamic Identity Today
Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad, Jane I. Smith, and Kathleen M. Moore
Abstract
The treatment and role of women is one of the most discussed and controversial aspects of Islam. In this volume, three scholars of Islam survey the situation of women in Islam, focusing on how Muslim views about and experiences of gender are changing in the Western diaspora. It offers an overview of the teachings of the Qur'an and the Prophet Muhammad on gender, analyzes the ways in which the West has historically viewed Muslim women, and examines how the Muslim world has changed in response to Western critiques. The volume then centers on the Muslim experience in America, examining Muslim Ame ... More
The treatment and role of women is one of the most discussed and controversial aspects of Islam. In this volume, three scholars of Islam survey the situation of women in Islam, focusing on how Muslim views about and experiences of gender are changing in the Western diaspora. It offers an overview of the teachings of the Qur'an and the Prophet Muhammad on gender, analyzes the ways in which the West has historically viewed Muslim women, and examines how the Muslim world has changed in response to Western critiques. The volume then centers on the Muslim experience in America, examining Muslim American analyses of gender, Muslim attempts to form a new “American” Islam, and the legal issues surrounding equal rights for Muslim females. Such specific issues as dress, marriage, child custody, and asylum are addressed. It also looks at the ways in which American Muslim women have tried to create new paradigms of Islamic womanhood and are reinterpreting the traditions apart from the males who control the mosque institutions.
Keywords:
women,
child custody,
Islam,
gender,
Western diaspora,
Qur'an,
Prophet Muhammad,
Muslim women,
dress,
marriage
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2006 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780195177831 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: October 2011 |
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195177831.001.0001 |
Authors
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Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad, author
Georgetown University
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Jane I. Smith, author
Hartford Seminary
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Kathleen M. Moore, author
University of California, Santa Barbara
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