When Shelina Janmohamed, an Oxford-educated Muslim living in the bubbling ethnic mix of North London, opted for the traditional “arranged” route to finding a partner, she never suspected it would be the journey of her life.
Through ten long years of matchmaking buxom aunties, countless mismatches, and outrageous dating disasters, Shelina discovers more about herself and her faith. Along the way, she learns that sometimes being true to her religion means challenging tradition, while readers learn much about Islam that may surprise them.
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A discussion of important women’s issues in Islam.
International Islamic Publishing House
Adults
English
9786035010344
Huda Khattab
This is a new, fully-revised edition of Huda Khattab’s discussion of important women’s issues in Islam. It examines several controversial topics such as domestic violence, female genital mutilation and the failure to educate women and girls, and points out the divergence between Islamic teaching and actual culturally-influenced practice. In this 3rd edition of Bent Rib, important information has been updated and new and interesting developments in these areas are discussed with regard to their impact on Muslim women and their society.
This book presents the route to happiness in a nutshell, drawing on Islamic teachings and the voices of "experts" both western and eastern.
International Islamic Publishing House
Adults
English
9789960850894
Dr. Aaidh al-Qarni
We are all looking for an escape from worry, stress and depression, and for ways to find happiness. This book presents the route to happiness in a nutshell, drawing on Islamic teachings and the voices of "experts" both western and eastern. So sit back, relax and read from cover to cover, or dip into it a page or two at a time in between a busy life as a wife, mother, student or worker. You are now looking at a treasure chest of reminders that will help you learn important lessons and set you on the path to happiness in this world and in the Hereafter insha’Allah.
Darussalam presents this booklet as a solution to one of the most difficult problems of our time.
Darrussalam
Adults
English
9789960899442
Mahmoud Ridha Murad
In our world of chaos and confusion concerning the unending problems of sexual abuses and perversion, most of mankind has all but given up hope on how to come to terms with this intractable of all problems. If we don't come up with a solution to face this dilemma, the disaster that accompanies these crimes will be upon us as a whole. We will pay, our children will pay, and our children's children will pay. This is certain. Thankfully, we have the Divine guidance on how to avoid these problems from the beginning by following the laws set out for us by the One Who knows His creation. Darussalam presents this booklet as a solution to one of the most difficult problems of our time.
This is a practical manual dealing with all aspects of a woman's daily life.
Ta-Ha Publishers Ltd.
Adults
English
9781897940006
Huda Khattab
This is a practical manual dealing with all aspects of a woman's daily life. The author deals with such delicate subjects as personal hygiene, menstruation, hijab, marriage, divorce, as well as the woman's role in the family and in the community. This book is of immense value to Muslim women and teenage girls, especially those discovering or re-discovering the relevance of Islam in their lives.
Rethinking Muslim Women and the Veil (Challenging Historical & Modern Stereotypes) This detailed and significant study is a powerful critique of the popular western notion that the veil is a symbol of Muslim women's oppression. In postulating a positive theory of the hijab; the author challenges with great sophistication both the commonly held view of Muslim women being utterly subjugated by men, as well as the more complex arguments put forward by liberal feminists such Mernissi, Macleod and others who have sought to criticize the choice of women to cover themselves as ultimately un-liberating. Examining and questioning the validity and accuracy of some of the feminists' assumptions, the author puts forward the case that the judgment of the veil as being an oppressive feature of Islam is based on liberal understandings of “equality” and “liberty” which preclude other ways of thinking about these issues that offer a positive approach for contemplating the wearing of the veil. The author argues that in a culture of consumerism, the hijab can be experienced as liberation from the tyranny of the beauty myth and the thin 'ideal' woman.
Rethinking Muslim Women and the Veil straddles many academic disciplines: political theory, feminism, anthropology, sociology, history as well as Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies. The author’s research is wide-ranging – from the historical background behind the western stereotyping of the veil and the influence of the colonial era, to modern veiling trends in Muslim and non-Muslim countries. Her analysis includes interviews with a group of Muslim women from various backgrounds in Toronto, Canada. Ultimately in dispelling some widely held myths about Muslim women and the hijab, the author introduces respectability, to the voice of believing Muslim women, claiming that liberation and the equality of women arc fundamental to Islam itself.
KATHERINE BULLOCK is an alumna of the University of Toronto, where she earned her doctorate in Political Science in 1999. It was during her doctoral studies that she embraced Islam. Her Ph.D. dissertation was on "Politics of the Veil" and she has spoken on this, and other topics relevant to Muslim women, to academic and church circles in Canada, the USA and Australia. Dr. Bullock is originally from Australia, and now lives in California with her husband and son.
In this book Leila Ahmed adds a new perspective to the current debate about women and Islam by exploring its historical roots, tracing the developments in Islamic discourses on women and gender from the ancient world to the present.
Yale University Press
Adults
English
9780300055832
Leila Ahmed
Are Islamic societies inherently oppressive to women? Is the trend among Islamic women to appear once again in veils and other traditional clothing a symbol of regression or an effort to return to a “pure” Islam that was just and fair to both sexes? In this book Leila Ahmed adds a new perspective to the current debate about women and Islam by exploring its historical roots, tracing the developments in Islamic discourses on women and gender from the ancient world to the present.
In order to distinguish what was distinctive about the earliest Islamic doctrine on women, Ahmed first describes the gender systems in place in the Middle East before the rise of Islam. She then focuses on those Arab societies that played a key role in elaborating the dominant Islamic discourses about women and gender: Arabia during the period in which Islam was founded; Iraq during the classical age, when the prescriptive core of legal and religious discourse on women was formulated; and Egypt during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, when exposure to Western societies led to dramatic social change and to the emergence of new discourses on women. Throughout, Ahmed not only considers the Islamic texts in which central ideologies about women and gender developed or were debated but also places this discourse in its social and historical context. Her book is thus a fascinating survey of Islamic debates and ideologies about women and the historical circumstances of their position in society, the first such discussion using the analytic tools of contemporary gender studies.
Language: English, Also available as (Urdu, Arabic)
Code: 807341222258
Description
Noorart is pleased to present this textbook and coloring book for grades 1-2, it’s an excellent, child-friendly Islamic curriculum in modern, contemporary English. This book is designed to meet the needs of parents, weekend schools and full time schools... » See More