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Author : Shabana Mir
Release : 2014
Genre : Education
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Book Rating : 787/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Muslim American Women on Campus by : Shabana Mir
Download or read book Muslim American Women on Campus written by Shabana Mir. This book was released on 2014. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Muslim American Women on Campus: Undergraduate Social Life and Identity
Author : Shabana Mir
Release : 2014-01-02
Genre : Religion
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 809/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Muslim American Women on Campus by : Shabana Mir
Download or read book Muslim American Women on Campus written by Shabana Mir. This book was released on 2014-01-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shabana Mir's powerful ethnographic study of women on Washington, D.C., college campuses reveals that being a young female Muslim in post-9/11 America means experiencing double scrutiny—scrutiny from the Muslim community as well as from the dominant non-Muslim community. Muslim American Women on Campus illuminates the processes by which a group of ethnically diverse American college women, all identifying as Muslim and all raised in the United States, construct their identities during one of the most formative times in their lives. Mir, an anthropologist of education, focuses on key leisure practices--drinking, dating, and fashion--to probe how Muslim American students adapt to campus life and build social networks that are seamlessly American, Muslim, and youthful. In this lively and highly accessible book, we hear the women's own often poignant voices as they articulate how they find spaces within campus culture as well as their Muslim student communities to grow and assert themselves as individuals, women, and Americans. Mir concludes, however, that institutions of higher learning continue to have much to learn about fostering religious diversity on campus.
Author : Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad
Release : 2006-03-02
Genre : Religion
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Book Rating : 557/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Muslim Women in America by : Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad
Download or read book Muslim Women in America written by Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad. This book was released on 2006-03-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The treatment and role of women are among the most discussed and controversial aspects of Islam. The rights of Muslim women have become part of the Western political agenda, often perpetuating a stereotype of universal oppression. Muslim women living in America continue to be marginalized and misunderstood since the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Yet their contributions are changing the face of Islam as it is seen both within Muslim communities in the West and by non-Muslims. In their public and private lives, Muslim women are actively negotiating what it means to be a woman and a Muslim in an American context. Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad, Jane I. Smith, and Kathleen M. Moore offer a much-needed survey of the situation of Muslim American women, focusing on how Muslim views about and experiences of gender are changing in the Western diaspora. Centering on Muslims in America, the book investigates Muslim attempts to form a new "American" Islam. Such specific issues as dress, marriage, childrearing, conversion, and workplace discrimination are addressed. The authors also look at the ways in which American Muslim women have tried to create new paradigms of Islamic womanhood and are reinterpreting the traditions apart from the males who control the mosque institutions. A final chapter asks whether 9/11 will prove to have been a watershed moment for Muslim women in America. This groundbreaking work presents the diversity of Muslim American women and demonstrates the complexity of the issues. Impeccably researched and accessible, it broadens our understanding of Islam in the West and encourages further exploration into how Muslim women are shaping the future of American Islam.
Author : Fatima Iqbal Rangoonwala
Release : 2009
Genre :
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Book Synopsis Growing Up Muslim by : Fatima Iqbal Rangoonwala
Download or read book Growing Up Muslim written by Fatima Iqbal Rangoonwala. This book was released on 2009. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Yvonne Y Haddad
Release : 2009-02-26
Genre : Religion
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Book Rating : 127/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Educating the Muslims of America by : Yvonne Y Haddad
Download or read book Educating the Muslims of America written by Yvonne Y Haddad. This book was released on 2009-02-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the U.S. Muslim population continues to grow, Islamic schools are springing up across the American landscape. Especially since the events of 9/11, many have become concerned about what kind of teaching is going on behind the walls of these schools, and whether it might serve to foster the seditious purposes of Islamist extremism. The essays collected in this volume look behind those walls and discover both efforts to provide excellent instruction following national educational standards and attempts to inculcate Islamic values and protect students from what are seen as the dangers of secularism and the compromising values of American culture. Also considered here are other dimensions of American Islamic education, including: new forms of institutions for youth and college-age Muslims; home-schooling; the impact of educational media on young children; and the kind of training being offered by Muslim chaplains in universities, hospitals, prisons, and other such settings. Finally the authors look at the ways in which Muslims are rising to the task of educating the American public about Islam in the face of increasing hostility and prejudice. This timely volume is the first dedicated entirely to the neglected topic of Islamic education.
