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A 7 page book review that examines Gender, Politics and Islam (2002, Saliba, Allen and Howard, Eds.). This text offers a compilation of articles that were first published in Signs between 1997 and 2002, which pertain to women's experience within the boundaries of Islam and specific Arab and African cultures. The purpose of the text is to seek to counter the prevailing image of Islam, and particularly that of Islamic women, as "monolithic" (Saliba 1). Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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of articles that were first published in Signs between 1997 and 2002, which pertain to womens experience within the boundaries of Islam and specific Arab and African cultures. The purpose
of the text is to seek to counter the prevailing image of Islam, and particularly that of Islamic women, as "monolithic" (Saliba 1). Furthermore, Saliba delineates the editors intention to
present "Muslim women (veiled or unveiled)" as more than merely "passive victims of their religion and culture" (Saliba 1). The essays in this volume illustrate the editors point that the
feminist face of Islam is not monolithic, but rather represents a "heterogeneous set of historically and contextually variable practices and beliefs shaped by region, ethnicity, sect and class..." (Saliba 1-2).
As pointed out by reviewer Katherine Meyer, the articles in this collection are of exceptional quality, as Signs is an excellent scholarly journal (Meyer 424). The nine articles offered
in the collection present a construct of Islamic identity, which is both heterogeneous and historically conceptualized (Zayzafoon). Four of the articles are authored by anthropologists and are based on their
observations from careful fieldwork and ethnography (Meyer 424). These are the articles by Heglund, Peteet, Vom Bruck and Khan. Collectively they demonstrate the diversity of Muslim identity and the
significance of networks in formulating that identity (Meyer 424). The specific topics covered are diverse. For example, Hegland addresses the power that Pakistani women exert through their participation in fundamentalist
Islamic ritual. This examination illustrates how this participation serves to transforms the self-images of the women, as well as their worldview. Hegland argues that this brings these women "both fundamentalism
and freedom, as well as a female community both coercive and enabling" (Hegland 97). Peteet specifically addresses the context of mothering during the Lebanese civil war. She is concerned
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