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  • Muslim Women Speaking Persistently

    Edited by Feroza Jussawalla, Doaa Omran ...
    This book highlights the resilience and courage of Muslim women who have spoken out under challenging circumstances across history and geography. From the exploration of the Andalusian poet Wallāda Bint al- Mustakfi in the Middle Ages to contemporary British diaspora writers, Afghani women, Chic Lit authors and playwrights, and discussions on Hindutva issues, this book showcases the diverse and ... Read more

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  • Memory, Voice, and Identity

    Muslim Women’s Writing from across the Middle East

    Edited by Feroza Jussawalla, Doaa Omran ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
    Muslim women have been stereotyped by Western academia as oppressed and voiceless. This volume problematizes this Western academic representation. Muslim Women Writers from the Middle East from Out al-Kouloub al-Dimerdashiyyah (1899–1968) and Latifa al-Zayat (1923–1996) from Egypt, to current diasporic writers such as Tamara Chalabi from Iraq, Mohja Kahf from Syria, and even trendy writers such as ... Read more

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  • Muslim Women’s Writing from across South and Southeast Asia

    Edited by Feroza Jussawalla, Doaa Omran ...
    This essential collection examines South and Southeast Asian Muslim women’s writing and the ways they navigate cultural, political, and controversial boundaries. Providing a global, contemporary collection of essays, this volume uses varied methods of analysis and methodology, including:• Contemporary forms of expression, such as memoir, oral accounts, romance novels, poetry, and social media;• ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • In the Crossfire of History

    Women's War Resistance Discourse in the Global South

    Series series War Culture
    In the global south, women have and continue to resist multiple forms of structural violence. The atrocities committed against Yazidi women by ISIS have been recognized internationally, and the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Nadia Murad in 2018 was a tribute to honor women whose bodies have been battered in the name of race, nationality, war, and religion. *In the Crossfire of History:*Women's War ... Read more

    $24.49 USD

  • Incarceration and Slavery in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age

    A Cultural-Historical Investigation of the Dark Side in the Pre-Modern World

    Series series Studies in Medieval Literature
    People in the Middle Ages and the early modern age more often suffered from imprisonment and enslavement than we might have assumed. Incarceration and Slavery in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age approaches these topics from a wide variety of perspectives and demonstrates collectively the great relevance of the issues involved. Both incarceration and slavery were (and continue to be) most ... Read more

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    Hope, Frustration, and Ambivalence before and after 2011

    Series series Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa
    "Illustrates the complex and contradictory impact of Muslim revivalism on the expectations and hopes of Egyptian youth . . . Recommended." — ChoiceAgainst the backdrop of the revolutionary uprisings of 2011–2013, Samuli Schielke asks how ordinary Egyptians confront the great promises and grand schemes of religious commitment, middle class respectability, romantic love, and political ideologies in ... Read more

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  • Women Claim Islam

    Creating Islamic Feminism Through Literature

    by Miriam Cooke ...
    This provocative collection addresses the ways in which Arab women writers are using Islam to empower themselves, and theorizes the conditions that have made the appearance of these new voices possible. ... Read more

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  • Contemporary Arab-American Literature

    Transnational Reconfigurations of Citizenship and Belonging

    The last couple of decades have witnessed a flourishing of Arab-American literature across multiple genres. Yet, increased interest in this literature is ironically paralleled by a prevalent bias against Arabs and Muslims that portrays their long presence in the US as a recent and unwelcome phenomenon. Spanning the 1990s to the present, Ca... ... Read more

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  • Muslim Worldviews and Everyday Lives

    el-Aswad introduces the concepts of worldviews/cosmologies of Muslims, explaining that the different types of worldviews are not constructed solely by religious scholars or intellectual elite, but are latent in Islamic tradition, embedded in popular imagination, and triggered through people's everyday interaction in various countries and communities. He draws from a number of sources including in ... Read more

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  • Men in Charge?

    Rethinking Authority in Muslim Legal Tradition

    Both Muslims and non-Muslims see women in most Muslim countries as suffering from social, economic, and political discrimination, treated by law and society as second-class citizens subject to male authority. This discrimination is attributed to Islam and Islamic law, and since the late 19th century there has been a mass of literature tackling this issue.Recently, exciting new feminist research ... Read more

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  • Islam Is a Foreign Country

    American Muslims and the Global Crisis of Authority

    Series Book 22 - Nation of Nations
    "A moving and incisive account of Muslim immigrant experiences in the United States. It reveals a dimension of American life seldom genuinely understood." —Saba Mahmood, author of Politics of PietyIn Islam Is a Foreign Country, Zareena Grewal explores some of the most pressing debates about and among American Muslims: What does it mean to be Muslim and American? Who has the authority to speak for ... Read more

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  • Refugees of the Revolution

    Experiences of Palestinian Exile

    by Diana Allan ...
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    Some sixty-five years after 750,000 Palestinians fled or were expelled from their homeland, the popular conception of Palestinian refugees still emphasizes their fierce commitment to exercising their "right of return." Exile has come to seem a kind of historical amber, preserving refugees in a way of life that ended abruptly with "the catastrophe" of 1948 and their camps—inhabited now for four ... Read more

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