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Muslim Societies (muslim + society)

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Humanities and Social Sciences50%

Selected Abstracts

Controlling Knowledge: Religion, Power And Schooling in a West African Muslim Society

THE MUSLIM WORLD, Issue 2 2003
Kamal Ali
No abstract is available for this article. [source]

MUSLIM WOMEN AND PROPERTY RIGHTS

ECONOMIC AFFAIRS, Issue 2 2009
Azhar Aslam
This paper examines rights to property accorded to women in Islam under direct injunctions and compares it with the state of these rights in present Muslim societies. It argues that the correct application of law will not only materially improve the status of women in Muslim societies and guarantee them economic security, it will also bring economic prosperity to such societies directly. [source]

The Islam of anthropology

THE AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF ANTHROPOLOGY, Issue 2 2009
Christopher Houston
Research on ,Muslim societies' is a controversial topic in the present, particularly given the US army's current employment of anthropological experts in war zones under military occupation. In 2006 the UK Foreign Office, too, sought to include anthropologists in its worldwide research project entitled ,Combating Terrorism by Countering Radicalization', with grants given outside the normal process of research funding and differently assessed. In this article, I immodestly argue for how the discipline of anthropology should apprehend and analyse Islam in the present political context. The paper claims that anthropological research provides an antidote to the Islamophobia of much talk about Islam in the Australian public sphere, an Islamophobia originating not only from the right but from some leftists and feminists as well. [source]