Perceptions of Self, Power, & Gender Among Muslim Women Narrativ
This book analyzes perceptions of self, power, agency, and gender of Muslim women in a rural community of Bangladesh. Rural women’s limited power and agency has been subsumed within the male dominated Islamic discourses on gender. However, many Muslim wom
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Perceptions of Self, Power, & Gender Among Muslim Women Narratives from a Rural Community in Bangladesh
Perceptions of Self, Power, & Gender Among Muslim Women
Sarwar Alam
Perceptions of Self, Power, & Gender Among Muslim Women Narratives from a Rural Community in Bangladesh
Sarwar Alam King Fahd Center for Middle East Studies University of Arkansas Fayetteville, AR, USA
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To Annika, Ghaleeb, Ony, Anoy, Onanna, Orna, Nira, Ryan, Sara, Zara, Rodela, Arid, Anusha, Isham, Puhama, Reeshad, Sasha, Raiyan, Elana and Rysa. And to my father, and late mother Henna.
Preface
The first draft of this book was prepared in early 2009, when I was a postdoctoral fellow (2007–2010) at the Graduate Division of Religion at Emory University, Georgia. Emory opened up new horizons under the mentorship of Gordon D. Newby and Vincent J. Cornell. I studied anthropology, gender and women, early Islamic civilization, Islamic philosophy as well as Arabic language and the Qur’an there. I studied more subjects related to Islamic civilizations during my postdoctoral years than I had during my graduate and postgraduate years. However, it was during my teaching years at the University of Arkansas when I prepared the final draft of this monograph. It may
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