Family, Law and Politics, Volume II of the Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures, brings together over 360 entries on women, family, law, politics, and Islam
The volume is the first comprehensive compilation of texts on gender constructions, normative gender orders and their religious legitimizations, as well as curr
This book examines how the cultural context influences the way in which young single women approach courtship, and issues of sexuality and reproductive health.
An examination of the place of religion, especially Islam, in political and cultural life took on a special urgency after the events of 9/11. The essays in this
"Four american moslem ladies": early U.S. Muslim women in the Ahmadiyya Movement in Islam, 1920-1923 -- Insurgent domesticity: race and gender in representation