1. Feminism in an African context.

2. Feminist movement for equal rights in North Africa.

3. African feminism theorist: Molara Ogundipe-Leslie.

4. The abolition of sexual mutilations.

I. Algeria: 5.

Gender conflict and civil society. 6.

The execution and murder of women, foreigners and intellectuals in Algeria. 7.

Women’s rights activist assassinated in Algeria. 8.

The martyrdom of girls raped by Islamic armed groups. Appendices.

II. Djibouti: 9.

Female circumcision in Djibouti. III.

Egypt: 10. The feminist movement in Egypt.

11. Egyptian reformism and women’s right.

12. Feminist consciousness and the Islamic state.

13. Post-colonial cultural politics of feminism and Islamism.

14. ‘A’isha Taymur in feminist movement and modernist discourses 19 century Egypt.

15. Huda Sharawi and female militancy.

16. Impact of Islamic fanaticism thought on young Muslim women.

17. Fundamentalism and feminism.

18. Egyptian women and ethnographic representations.

Appendices. IV.

Eritrea: 19. Female circumcision in Eritrea.

V. Ethiopia: 20.

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1. Cultural particularism as a bar to women’s rights: reflections on the middle eastern experience.

2. Making feminist sense of the Gulf crisis.

Iran: 3. On the origins of feminism in early 20 century Iran.

4. The feminist transformations in twentieth century Iran.

5. Feminist potential of women’s awakening.

6. Feminism, state and ideology.

7. Women participation in political struggles.

8. Politics of ‘Islamic Feminism’.

9. Gender, institutions and democracy in Iran.

10. Women and politics in post-Islamist Iran: the gender conscious drive to change.

11. Iranian women and their support for Islam.

12. Women’s religious discourse in Iran: Roseh-Zananeh.

13. Women’s status in Iranian Civil Law (1905-1995).

14. Taj Al-Saltana: liberating women.

15. A new feminist discourse on Islam in Iran.

Appendices. Bibliography.

Index. Vol.

II: I. Iraq: 1.

Iraqi feminism and feminist movement. 2.

Movement within movement: women and the state in Iraq. II.

Palestine: 3. Feminism and (less)

Islamic feminism: what's in a name? 2. Islamic feminism revisited.

3. Who's afraid of Islamic feminism.

4. Islamic Feminism in and beyond East and West.

5. The gender of Islam (India).

6. Liberties of the Faithful (Nigeria).

7. Gender and identity (Tajikistan).

8. Finding Islam (Bulgaria).

9. Re/turning to Islam, finding feminism (Bosnia).

10. Feminism in a nationalist century (Egypt).

11. Gendering the Islamist Globalisation Offensive (Sudan).

12. The religious face of Secularism (Turkey).

13. Two heads are better than one (Turkey).

14. Reflections on the New Family Law (Morocco).

15. Going West 1923.

16. Going West Post-9/11.

17. Rites and rights: the Mosque Movement from Mecca to Main Street.

18. Re-defining feminism/s, Re-imagining faith? Index.

"Islamic Feminism. What is it? Where did it arise? From within or from without? Is it "Legitimate"? What are its aims? Muslims often label feminism as "Western" by Muslims and thereby discredit it.

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Afghanistan: 1. Women’s emancipation in Afghanistan.

2. Women educating women in Afghan Refugee Camp.

3. Pakhtun women: conflicts of solidarity.

4. Gender politics in Iran and Afghanistan.

II. Azerbaijan: 5.

Islamic feminism and the soviet legacy of modernisation. 6.

Womanhood, manhood and Azerbaijani nation-building. III.

Kazakstan: 7. The construction of gender roles in Kazak society.

IV. Soviet Central Asia: 8.

Muslim feminism and Islamic controlled behaviour in Soviet Central Asia. 9.

Feminist movement and economic reforms in Soviet Central Asia. 10.

Muslim feminism and nationalism: Crimea, middle Volga and Caucasus. V.

Tajikistan: 11. Tajikistani feminist ideology: Islam and socialism.

12. The movement for feminist identity in Post-Soviet Tajikistan.

VI. Uzbekistan: 13.

Uzbek women and the formation of national identity. 14.

Women’s emancipation movement in Uzbekistan. 15.

Transitional phase of Uzbekistani women: media survey. Appendix.

Bibliography. Index.

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1. Introduction.

2. Islam and Women Rights Movements in Pre-Independence India.

3. Muslim women’s participation in the National Movement.

4. The Communalisation of female political identity.

5. Muslim personal law and women’s rights.

6. The campaign for women’s emancipation in Daudi Bohra sect of Indian Muslims: 1929-1945.

7. Feminine voice in Urdu poetries, fictions and journals.

8. Women Rights Movements in Post-Independence India.

9. Rabi’a Basri: a mystic woman par excellence.

10. Socio-legal awakening and awareness among Muslim women.

11. Women’s struggle for social political and educational equality.

12. The reassessment of Muslim womanhood.

Appendices. Bibliography.

Index. Vol.

II: Pakistan: Preface. 1.

Pakistani feminism and feminist movement. 2.

Fundamentalist ideology and feminist resistance. 3.

Class structure within the feminist movement: shifts and implications. 4.

Women’s participation in the Muttahida Qaumi movement. 5.

Gender relations and women empowerment. 6.

Women education and national development. 7.

Legislations for women’s right. 8.

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I. Malaysia: 1.

Malaysian feminism and feminist movement. 2.

Islamic law and feminist subjugation. 3.

Economic autonomy, ritual segregation and future possibilities. 4.

Women among traditional rituals and Islamic law. 5.

Malay Muslim women in South Africa. II.

Mauritius: 6. Multi-fundamentalism and feminist resistance in Mauritius.

III. Indonesia: 7.

The feminist movement for equal rights. 8.

Images of femininity: difference and diversity. 9.

Muslim female preacher and feminist movement. 10.

Socio-religious changes in Sasak Muslim women. IV.

Philippines: 11. Gender relations and Islamic resurgence.

12. Gender justice: men and women relation in Philippines.

13. Feminist movement for democratic rights.

14. Babaye’s rebirth in the Philippines feminist movement.

Bibliography. Index.

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