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  • Muffled Voices in the Zenana and Beyond

    The Fiction and Life Writings of Selected South Asian Muslim Women Writers

    by Sabreen Ahmed ...
    Series series Peripheral Lives in Asia
    This book explores subaltern subjecthood, resistance and sexual agency in the works of Muslim women writers from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh since the early 20th century. Locating the Muslim woman in the fiction of these countries from a sub-continental locus, it incorporates concepts of race, diaspora and postcolonial feminism in its reading of selected texts along with precepts of Islamic ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

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  • Dreams That Matter

    Egyptian Landscapes of the Imagination

    by Amira Mittermaier ...
    Dreams that Matter explores the social and material life of dreams in contemporary Cairo. Amira Mittermaier guides the reader through landscapes of the imagination that feature Muslim dream interpreters who draw on Freud, reformists who dismiss all forms of divination as superstition, a Sufi devotional group that keeps a diary of dreams related to its shaykh, and ordinary believers who speak of ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Women, War, and the Making of Bangladesh

    Remembering 1971

    by Yasmin Saikia ...
    Fought between India and what was then East and West Pakistan, the war of 1971 led to the creation of Bangladesh, where it is remembered as the War of Liberation. For India, the war represents a triumphant settling of scores with Pakistan. If the war is acknowledged in Pakistan, it is cast as an act of betrayal by the Bengalis. None of these nationalist histories convey the human cost of the war. ... Read more

    $31.89 CAD

  • Women Mystics and Sufi Shrines in India

    by Kelly Pemberton ...
    Series series Studies in Comparative Religion
    Insightful field research into the complexity of women's roles in a subset of Islamic culture.Women Mystics and Sufi Shrines in India combines historical data with years of ethnographic fieldwork to investigate women's participation in the culture of Sufi shrines in India and the manner in which this participation both complicates and sustains traditional conceptions of Islamic womanhood. Kelly ... Read more

    $63.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Gendered Morality

    Classical Islamic Ethics of the Self, Family, and Society

    by Zahra M. S. Ayubi ...
    Islamic scriptural sources offer potentially radical notions of equality. Yet medieval Islamic philosophers chose to establish a hierarchical, male-centered virtue ethics. In Gendered Morality, Zahra Ayubi rethinks the tradition of Islamic philosophical ethics from a feminist critical perspective. She calls for a philosophical turn in the study of gender in Islam based on resources for gender ... Read more

    $41.59 CAD

  • The Spectral Wound

    Sexual Violence, Public Memories, and the Bangladesh War of 1971

    by Nayanika Mookherjee ...
    Following the 1971 Bangladesh War, the Bangladesh government publicly designated the thousands of women raped by the Pakistani military and their local collaborators as birangonas, ("brave women”). Nayanika Mookherjee demonstrates that while this celebration of birangonas as heroes keeps them in the public memory, they exist in the public consciousness as what Mookherjee calls a spectral wound. ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Muslim Worldviews and Everyday Lives

    by El-Sayed el-Aswad ...
    el-Aswad introduces the concepts of worldviews/cosmologies of Muslims, explaining that the different types of worldviews are not constructed solely by religious scholars or intellectual elite, but are latent in Islamic tradition, embedded in popular imagination, and triggered through people's everyday interaction in various countries and communities. He draws from a number of sources including in ... Read more

    $158.09 CAD

  • Muslim Becoming

    Aspiration and Skepticism in Pakistan

    by Naveeda Khan ...
    In Muslim Becoming, Naveeda Khan challenges the claim that Pakistan's relation to Islam is fragmented and problematic. Offering a radically different interpretation, Khan contends that Pakistan inherited an aspirational, always-becoming Islam, one with an open future and a tendency toward experimentation. For the individual, this aspirational tendency manifests in a continual striving to be a ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

  • Contemporary Pakistani Fiction in English

    Idea, Nation, State

    by Cara Cilano ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
    Looking at a wide selection of Pakistani novels in English, this book explores how literary texts imaginatively probe the past, convey the present, and project a future in terms that facilitate a sense of collective belonging. The novels discussed cover a range of historical movements and developments, including pre-20th century Islamic history, the 1947 partition, the 1971 Pakistani war, the Zia ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • Among the Eunuchs

    A Muslim Transgender Journey

    by Leyla Jagiella ...
    From an early age, Leyla Jagiella knew that she would be defined by two things: being Muslim and being trans. Struggling to negotiate these identities in her conservative, small hometown, she travelled to India and Pakistan, where her life was changed by her time among third-gender communities. Known as hijras in India, khwajasaras in Pakistan, these marginal communities have traditionally been ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Translating Egypt's Revolution

    The Language of Tahrir

    Edited by Samia Mehrez ...
    This unique interdisciplinary collective project is the culmination of research and translation work conducted by American University in Cairo students of different cultural and linguistic backgrounds who continue to witness Egypt's ongoing revolution. This historic event has produced an unprecedented proliferation of political and cultural documents and materials, whether written, oral, or visual ... Read more

    $30.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Jinnealogy

    Time, Islam, and Ecological Thought in the Medieval Ruins of Delhi

    by Anand Vivek Taneja ...
    Series series South Asia in Motion
    In the ruins of a medieval palace in Delhi, a unique phenomenon occurs: Indians of all castes and creeds meet to socialize and ask the spirits for help. The spirits they entreat are Islamic jinns, and they write out requests as if petitioning the state. At a time when a Hindu right wing government in India is committed to normalizing a view of the past that paints Muslims as oppressors, Anand ... Read more

    $35.19 CAD