Muslim Women in America: The Challenge of Islamic Identity Today

摘要: The treatment and role of women is one the most discussed controversial aspects Islam. In this volume, three respected scholars Islam survey situation in Islam, focusing on how Muslim views about experiences gender are changing Western diaspora. It offers an overview teachings Qur'an Prophet Muhammad gender, analyzes ways which West has historically viewed women, examines world changed response to critiques. volume then centers experience America, examining American analyses attempts form a new "American" legal issues surrounding equal rights for females. Such specific as dress, marriage, child custody, asylum addressed. also looks at have tried create paradigms Islamic womanhood reinterpreting traditions apart from males who control mosque institutions.