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This timely and stimulating Handbook, edited by world-class experts in the field, provides a comprehensive guide to Islamic Studies today. It examines the main issues in the field and explores the key debates. It provides readers with an indispensable, balanced guide to the roots of Islam and the challenges it faces in the twenty-first century.
Women's Agency in Muslim Society
Women's Agency in Muslim Society
When God wants to do it, it is done; when a khaza (woman/wife) wants to do it, it is also done (Che Khde a kai, agha keegee; che khaza a kai, agha keegee) (stated by wet nurse Sheereena dai [aged over 70 in 2001]).1
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Bismillah ar Rahman ar Rahim. In the Muslim social world, everything ideally begins with these words, the beginning of a journey, a marriage, the bathing of the dead, and the various such gham-khādi events of life, including life itself. This chapter examines Muslim women's agency within the context of Pukhtun life-cycle events, called gham-khādi. It argues that for too long Muslim women have generally been slotted in the following equation: domestic female = ...
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