Muslim diaspora : gender, culture, and identity /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London, UK :
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2006.
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| Series: | Routledge Islamic studies
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Table of Contents:
- pt. 1. Diaspora, identity, representation and violence. Diaspora : history of an idea / Denise Helly
- Islam in diaspora and challenges to multiculturalism / Saeed Rahnema
- Exilic readings of the Old Testament, the New Testament and the Koran / Reza Baraheni
- Diaspora, ethnicity and problems of identity / Mark J. Goodman
- Islam and consecrated tortures / Ezat Mossallanejad
- pt. 2. Home and exile : gender and politics of memory. Divided communities of memory : diasporas come home / Mary Ann Tétreault
- 'Our' reflections in 'their' mirror : cultural politics and the representation of the Iranian diaspora in the Islamic Republic / Hammed Shahidian
- Gender, nation and diaspora : Kurdish women in feminist transnational struggles / Shahrzad Mojab
- Discourses of Islam/secularism and identity-building processes among Turkish University youth / Aylin Akpinar
- pt. 3. Contested Terrains : Islam, gender and struggles for continuity and change. The hijab controversies in Western public schools : contrasting conceptions of ethnicity and of ethnic relations / Marie McAndrew
- Islamophobia and women of Pakistani descent in Bradford : the crisis of ascribed and adopted identities / Haleh Afshar, Robert Aitken and Myfanwy Franks
- Diasporic narratives on virginity / Fataneh Farahani
- Iranian-American elderly in California's Santa Clara valley : crafting, selves and composing lives / Mary Elaine Hegland
- Like Parvin, like Najiba, like Heba, we are all different : reflections on voices of women in diaspora / Afsaneh Hojabri.