Sebanyak 2 item atau buku ditemukan

Muslim Women in America

The Challenge of Islamic Identity Today

Muslim women living in America continue to be marginalized and misunderstood since the 9/11 terrorist attacks, yet their contributions are changing the face of Islam as it is seen both within Muslim communities in the West and by non-Muslims.

... the Mufti of Saudi Arabia, Bin Baz, gave permission for Saudi men to marry
American women when they came to the United States and then divorce them
before returning home, saying that would help satisfy the sexual desires
inevitably evoked by the wanton and seductive American environment. The vast
majority of Muslims living in America, those from immigrant backgrounds, African
Americans, or other converts to Islam, come from traditions and personal
circumstances in which ...

Islamic Law and the Challenges of Modernity

From different geographical and ideological points across the contemporary Arab world, this book demonstrates the range of views on just what Islam's legal heritage in the region should be.

In examining the transformation of traditional Islamic legal culture in a world of
nation-states and tracing the as-yet uneasy relationship of the culture with
Western notions of human rights and civil liberties, this volume is a contribution to
the long-standing debates among scholars both East and West on the nature and
functions of shari'a, Islamic law, in the modern age. Both the Western notion of "
Islamic law" and the use of the concept of "shari'a" by the traditionalist and
Islamist cadres ...