Notes From the Field:

منو

" Notes From the Field: "
Basarudin, Azza

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	899247
Doc. No	:	LA836486b3
Title & Author	:	Notes From the Field: [Article]. Living Ethnography\ Basarudin, Azza
Date	:	2007
Title of Periodical	:	UCLA
Abstract	:	Questions of gender in Islam, particularly of how Muslim women have been excluded from the interpretation and codification of religion has generated one of the most highly contested and controversial discourses in the contemporary moment of globalization. Across the Muslim world from Saudi Arabia to Indonesia, Islam's faithful, especially women, are calling for innovative ways to balance religious teaching with the demands of modernity and globalization. Within this context, Azza Basarudin's disseratation examines how Muslim women scholar-activists in two NGOs (non-governmental organizations) in Malaysia and in Egypt negotiate issues of gender, religion, and feminism in Islam.