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Encountering the transnational : women, Islam and the politics of interpretation /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Sharify-Funk, Meena
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2008]
Series:	Gender in a global/local world.
Subjects:	Muslim women. Women in Islam. Islam and civil society. Islamic modernism. Islam > 21st century.

Table of Contents:

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.