Encountering the transnational
Subtitle: women, Islam and the politics of interpretation
By: by Meena Sharify-Funk.
Series: Gender in a global/local world
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hants, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 203
ISBN-13: 9780754671237
Subjects: Muslim women.; Women in Islam.; Islam and civil society.; Islamic modernism.; Islam -- 21st century.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Introduction; value: Mixed messages and multiple agendas : the politics of women and Islam; value: Trends and transformations in contemporary Islamic hermeneutics; value: Identity and interpretation : dialogue and the negotiation of meaning; value: The transnational and the politics of community; value: Muslim society and state : the politics of public space; value: Muslim woman as self/other : the politics of identity; value: Conclusion: A space for connectivity and dynamism.