Women in Islam: The Western Experience

by Anne - Sofie Roald (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2001

  $55.83

  Women in Islam investigates the ongoing debate across the Muslim world and the West on the position of women in Islam.
  Anne-Sofie Roald focuses on how Islamic perceptions of women and gender change in Western Muslim communities. She shows how Islamic attitudes towards social concerns such as gender relations, female circumcision, and female dress emerge as responsive to culture and context, rather than rigid and inflexible.

• New

  Hardcover
  2001

  $141.78

  Investigates the ongoing debate, in both the Muslim world and the West, on the position of women in Islam. Illustrates how Islamic perceptions of women and gender relations change in Western Muslim communities.