Living Islam
Subtitle: Women, Religion and the Politicization of Culture in Turkey (Library of Modern Middle East Studies)
Publisher: I. B. Tauris
Published: October 11, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781860641787
Subjects: Islamic studies; POLITICS & GOVERNMENT; Women's studies; Women's Studies - General; Spirituality - Women's; Women In Islam; Sociology; Women's Studies - History; Religion; Turkey; Islam - Law; Social Science / Islamic Studies; Islam - General; Islam; Muslim women
First sentence: Long before modern Islamic revivalism surfaced in the social sphere, the position of women in Muslim societies had attracted the attention of Western intellectuals who saw it as diametrically opposed to the emancipated position attained by women in Western societies.