| Description |
1 online resource (xl, 616 pages). |
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text file |
| Series |
Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1, The Near and Middle East,
0169-9423 ;
v. 91
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Handbuch der Orientalistik. Erste Abteilung, Nahe und der Mittlere Osten ; 91 Bd.
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| Note |
Includes indexes. |
| Contents |
Selected sources for the study of South Asian Muslim women -- Muslim women in the history of South Asia -- Islamic traditions, Muslim women and the reform movement -- Pardah : Muslim women in/out of seclusion -- Religious practices -- In search of their identity : Muslim women setting new goals -- Women, nationalism and religion -- Muslim women's movements in South Asia -- The life cycle of South Asian Muslim women -- Women's rights to inherit property -- Education of South Asian Muslim women -- South Asian Muslim women's health -- Perspectives on South Asian women's development -- The arts and design -- Challenges, threats, and the responses of woman -- Feminism, new scholarship and new tools for development. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Summary |
In this volume comprehensive coverage of South Asian Muslim women's lives and their experiences, historically and contemporaneously, fills a serious gap in the existing scholarship regarding variegated patterns of Muslim communities. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Muslim women -- South Asia -- Bibliography.
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Muslim women. |
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South Asia. |
| Genre/Form |
Bibliographies.
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Electronic books.
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Bibliographies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Aftab, Tahera. Inscribing South Asian Muslim women. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008 (DLC) 2007029418 (OCoLC)162501915 |
| ISBN |
9789047423850 (electronic book) |
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9047423852 (electronic book) |
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1281921858 |
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9781281921857 |
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9789004158498 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
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9004158499 (hardback ; alkaline paper) |
| Standard No. |
10.1163/ej.9789004158498.i-616 |
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