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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      12 April 2025
      17 April 2025
      ISBN:
      9781009206587
      9781009206716
      9781009206563
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009206587
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.77kg, 428 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.64kg, 428 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Islam, Religion, Philosophy, Religion: General Interest
      Series:
      Cambridge Companions to Religion
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    Subjects:
    Islam, Religion, Philosophy, Religion: General Interest
    Series:
    Cambridge Companions to Religion
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    Book description

    The Cambridge Companion to Women and Islam provides a comprehensive overview of a timely topic that encompasses the fields of Islamic feminist scholarship, anthropology, history, and sociology. Divided into three parts, it makes several key contributions. The volume offers a detailed analysis of textual debates on gender and Islam, highlighting the logic of classical reasoning and its enduring appeal, while emphasizing alternative readings proposed by Islamic feminists. It considers the agency that Muslim women exhibit in relation to their faith as reflected in women's piety movements. Moreover, the volume documents how Muslim women shape socio-political life, presenting real-world examples from across the Muslim world and diaspora communities.  Written by an international team of scholars, the Companion also explores theoretical and methodological advances in the field, providing guidance for future research. Surveying Muslim women's experiences across time and place, it also presents debates on gender norms across various genres of Islamic scholarship.

    Reviews

    ‘Taken as a whole, The Cambridge Companion to Women and Islam is a determined, multi-vocal volume that foregrounds both the intellectual structures of Islamic gender norms and the diverse ways women inhabit, contest, or reinterpret them. One of the book’s main achievements is its rejection of attempts to reduce Muslim women to symbols, either of oppression or liberation. Instead, it presents them as thinking, choosing subjects whose lives are shaped by faith, social context, and personal aspiration. The Companion is an excellent, timely, and thoughtful contribution. It will serve scholars, students, and general readers who want a balanced and analytically rich entry point into contemporary debates. In a scholarly landscape that still often treats Islam and gender as a problem to be solved, this book argues instead that Muslim women’s lives must be approached with curiosity, seriousness, and respect.’

    Nor Ismah Source: Islamic Studies Review

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