TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sharify-Funk,Meena
TI  - Encountering the transnational: women, Islam and the politics of interpretation 
T2  - Gender in a global/local world
SN  - 0754686426
AV  - HQ1170 .S4623 2008eb
U1  - 305.48/697 23/eng/20240124
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Aldershot, Hants, England, Burlington, VT
PB  - Ashgate
KW  - Muslim women
KW  - Women in Islam
KW  - Islam and civil society
KW  - Islamic modernism
KW  - Islam
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Musulmanes
KW  - Femmes dans l'islam
KW  - Islam et société civile
KW  - Modernisme islamique
KW  - Histoire
KW  - 21e siècle
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Women's Studies
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction -- Mixed messages and multiple agendas : the politics of women and Islam -- Trends and transformations in contemporary Islamic hermeneutics -- Identity and interpretation : dialogue and the negotiation of meaning -- The transnational and the politics of community -- Muslim society and state : the politics of public space -- Muslim woman as self/other : the politics of identity -- Conclusion: A space for connectivity and dynamism
N2  - When Muslim women from diverse national and cultural contexts meet one another through transnational dialogue and networking, what happens to their sense of identity and social agency? This is a compelling account of conversations that are bringing new energy and dynamism into women's activism in a world of collapsing distances
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