Overview
- Wide spectrum of authorship covers a host of Muslim and non-Muslim perspectives
- Features research and analysis from many countries, with differing social characteristics relating to Islam
- Blends long-standing Muslim scholarship with new and innovative PhD research
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Bangladeshi women
- Discrimination
- Gender equality in Islam
- Hagarian Muslims
- Islam and gender equity
- Islam and human rights
- Islamic family life
- Islamic feminism
- Islamist approaches to women
- Jihad and gender
- Justice for women in Islam
- Mohamed Talbi
- Muslim stereotypes
- Muslim women in Australia
- Muslim women in Britain
- Muslim women's issues
- Palestinian women
- Shari’ah and Western law
- Updated research on women in Islam
- Women and Islamic history
- Women in Islam
- Women in Ismaeli Islam
- Women in modern Islam
- Women in the Qur'an
- Women's suppression in Islam
About this book
The role of women in Islamic societies, not to mention in the religion itself, is a defining issue. It is also one that remains resistant to universal dogma, with a wide range of responses to women’s social roles across the Islamic world. Reflecting this heterogeneity, the editor of this volume has assembled the latest research on the issue, which combines contemporary with historical data.
The material comes from around the world as well as from Muslim and non-Muslim researchers. It takes in work from majority Muslim nations such as Bangladesh, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Pakistan, Palestine, Tunisia and Turkey, as well as countries with troubled interfaith relations such as India and Israel. Nations with minority Muslim populations such as France, the UK, Canada and Australia, are also represented. The work also features varying Islamic sub-groups such as the two main ones, Sunni and Shi’a, as well as less well known populations such as the Ismaili Muslims. In each case, the work is underpinned by the very latest socio-theological insights and empirical data.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Dr Terence Lovat is Emeritus Professor at The University of Newcastle, Australia. He has been chief investigator of a number of Australian Government funded projects concerned with aspects of Islam and has written extensively in the area. In 2004, he was presented with an award by the Sydney-based Muslim association, Affinity Intercultural Dialogue, for academic work that promoted understanding of Islam.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Women in Islam
Book Subtitle: Reflections on Historical and Contemporary Research
Editors: Terence Lovat
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4219-2
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-4218-5Published: 13 June 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-017-8265-4Published: 18 July 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-4219-2Published: 12 June 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 248
Topics: Religious Studies, general, Anthropology, Religion and Education, Non-Western Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion