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Author Sharify-Funk, Meena.

Title Encountering the transnational : women, Islam and the politics of interpretation / by Meena Sharify-Funk.

Publication Info. Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2008]
©2008
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Description 1 online resource (xii, 203 pages).
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Series Gender in a global/local world
Gender in a global/local world.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction -- Mixed messages and multiple agendas : the politics of women and Islam -- Trends and transformations in contemporary Islamic hermeneutics -- Identity and interpretation : dialogue and the negotiation of meaning -- The transnational and the politics of community -- Muslim society and state : the politics of public space -- Muslim woman as self/other : the politics of identity -- Conclusion: A space for connectivity and dynamism.
Summary When Muslim women from diverse national and cultural contexts meet one another through transnational dialogue and networking, what happens to their sense of identity and social agency? This is a compelling account of conversations that are bringing new energy and dynamism into women's activism in a world of collapsing distances.
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Subject Muslim women.
Muslim women.
Women in Islam.
Women in Islam.
Islam and civil society.
Islam and civil society.
Islamic modernism.
Islamic modernism.
Islam -- 21st century.
Islam.
Chronological Term 21st century
2000-2099
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Sharify-Funk, Meena. Encountering the transnational. Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2008 (DLC) 2007035683
ISBN 0754686426 (electronic book)
9780754686422 (electronic book)
0754671232 (Cloth)
9780754671237

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