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An Islam of Her Own

Download or Read eBook An Islam of Her Own PDF written by Sherine Hafez and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2011-04-11 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
An Islam of Her Own
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Publisher : NYU Press
Total Pages : 204
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ISBN-10 : 9780814773055
ISBN-13 : 0814773052
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Book Synopsis An Islam of Her Own by : Sherine Hafez

Book excerpt: As the world grapples with issues of religious fanaticism, extremist politics, and rampant violence that seek justification in either “religious” or “secular” discourses, women who claim Islam as a vehicle for individual and social change are often either regarded as pious subjects who subscribe to an ideology that denies them many modern freedoms, or as feminist subjects who seek empowerment only through rejecting religion and adopting secularist discourses. Such assumptions emerge from a common trend in the literature to categorize the ‘secular’ and the ‘religious’ as polarizing categories, which in turn mitigates the identities, experiences and actions of women in Islamic societies. Yet in actuality Muslim women whose activism is grounded in Islam draw equally on principles associated with secularism. In An Islam of Her Own, Sherine Hafez focuses on women’s Islamic activism in Egypt to challenge these binary representations of religious versus secular subjectivities. Drawing on six non-consecutive years of ethnographic fieldwork within a women's Islamic movement in Cairo, Hafez analyzes the ways in which women who participate in Islamic activism narrate their selfhood, articulate their desires, and embody discourses in which the boundaries are blurred between the religious and the secular.


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