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Perceptions of Self, Power, & Gender Among Muslim Women: Narratives from a Rural Community in Bangladesh - Softcover

Alam, Sarwar

 
9783319892597: Perceptions of Self, Power, & Gender Among Muslim Women: Narratives from a Rural Community in Bangladesh
Softcover
ISBN 10: 3319892592 ISBN 13: 9783319892597
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

Synopsis

This book analyzes perceptions of self, power, agency, and gender of Muslim women in a rural community of Bangladesh. Rural women’s limited power and agency has been subsumed within the male dominated Islamic discourses on gender. However, many Muslim women have their own alternative discourses surrounding power and agency. Sarwar Alam intertwines an exploration of these power dynamics with reading of the Qur’an and Hadith, and analyzes how Muslim women’s perception of power and gender are linked to their relationship with religion.

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About the Author

Sarwar Alam is a lecturer at the King Fahd Center for Middle East Studies of the University of Arkansas, USA.

From the Back Cover

This book analyzes perceptions of self, power, agency, and gender of Muslim women in a rural community of Bangladesh. Rural women’s limited power and agency has been subsumed within the male dominated Islamic discourses on gender. However, many Muslim women have their own alternative discourses surrounding power and agency. Sarwar Alam intertwines an exploration of these power dynamics with reading of the Qur’an and Hadith, and analyzes how Muslim women’s perception of power and gender are linked to their relationship with religion.

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date
2019
Language
English
ISBN 10 
3319892592
ISBN 13 
9783319892597
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
305