Muslim women and the challenge of Islamic extremism
By: edited by Norani Othman.
Contributors: Norani Othman.; SIS Forum (Malaysia) Berhad.
Publisher: Sisters in Islam
Published: 2005
Place of publication: [Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 215
Subjects: Women's rights -- Islamic countries.; Muslim women -- Social conditions; Islamic fundamentalism.
Description: In earlier times, troublesome women, when their arguments became irresistible, were burnt as witches. These days their books are banned. The book Muslim Women and The Challenge of Islamic Extremism, edited by Norani Othman and published in October 2005, is based on a project initiated by Sisters in Islam (SIS) in early 2003. The collection of essays published in the book--describing women's groups' experiences in facing, engaging and challenging Islamic extremism (or, as scholars such as Prof. Bassam Tibi prefer to call it “Islamic fundamentalism”)--were originally “country research papers” prepared for the International Roundtable on Muslim Women and the Challenge of Religious Extremism: Building Bridges between Southeast Asia and the Middle East, held in Bellagio, Italy from 30 Sept. to 2 October, 2003. The papers are the outcome of collaborative research, networking and co-operation among various Muslim women's groups from Southeast Asia (Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Philippines, & Thailand) and the Middle East (Iran, Egypt, Jordan, Palestine, Morocco, Turkey, & Saudi Arabia). The task given to the paper contributors was to identify the nature, implications and challenges that ordinary Muslim women, Muslim women's groups and activists constantly face in their project to achieve justice for and promote the rights of women in their respective countries. The paper-writers were also asked to describe the strategies that were adopted by women's groups (in their respective countries) in their efforts to overcome those challenges and the opposition that they faced.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Muslim women and the challenge of political Islam and Islamic extremism / Norani Othman; title: Muslim women, religious extremism, and the project of the Islamic state in Iran / Ziba Mir-Hosseini; title: The challenge of fundamentalist Muslim movements and women's rights in Egypt / Fatma Khafagy; title: The battle over 'new' Indonesia, religious extremism, democratization, and women's agency in a plural society / Kamala Chandrakirana and Yuniyanti Chuzaifah; title: Malaysia, Islamization, Muslim politics, and state authoritarianism / Norani Othman, Zainah Anwar, and Zaitun Mohamed Kasim; title: When gender is not a priority, Muslim women in Singapore and the challenges of religious fundamentalism / Suzaina Kadir; title: Religious extremism and its impact, the case of the southern Philippines / Norma A. Maruhom and Fatima Pir T. Allian; title: The women's movement in Morocco and the project of reforming the code for personal status law, Moudawana-Islamic law / Amina Lemrini El Quahabi; title: Women Living Under Muslim Laws (WLUML) network's understanding of religious fundamentalisms and its response / edited by Hoda Rouhana; title: Muslim women, the challenge of Islamic extremism and the way forward to building bridges between Southeast Asia and the Middle East / Zainah Anwar and Norani Othman.