Add to ORKGPrivately Empowered responds to the lack of adequate attention paid to Islam in Africa in comparison to the Middle East and the Arab world. Shirin Edwin points to the embrace between Islam and politics that has limited Islamic feminist discourse to regions where it evolves in tandem with the nation-state and is commonly understood in terms of activism, social affiliations, or struggles for legal reform. Edwin examines the novels of Zaynab Alkali, Abubakar Gimba, and Hauwa Ali due to their emphases on personal engagement, Islamic ritual in the quotidian, and observance of Qur’anic injunctions. Analysis of these texts connects the ways Muslim women in northern Nigeria balance their spiritual habits in ever changing configurations of their pri...
grantor: University of TorontoIn this study, we undertake a socio-cultural analysis of fem...
Women, especially in northern Nigeria have become the silenced “subalterns” due to misconceptions ab...
This paper examines women’s struggle to overcome marginalization in a sexist and a patriarchal Niger...
Privately Empowered responds to the lack of adequate attention paid to Islam in Africa in comparison...
The status of Muslim women in the contemporary society has generated a lot of controversies and stil...
This paper discusses the rise and trends of Muslim/ Islamic feminism in the wake of application of S...
Throughout the political history of Islam, women played significant political roles in the affairs o...
Modern fiction in its attempt to address the woman question is re-focusingattention rather than on s...
Sufism, which is a mystical form of Islam, serves as the main form of religion followed by people li...
Hausa1 women have been either a major subject of discussion or at the receiving end of religious act...
African prose fictions have written on a whole number of ideas and perception, but have conspicuousl...
The issue of insecurity has remained the most challenging problem in the world including Nigeria. In...
Love in both traditional and modern African societies is seen as a peculiar act conditioned by the s...
The study explores the syndrome of domestic subjugation closely through a progression of already est...
<p>Throughout the political history of Islam, women played significant political roles in the ...
grantor: University of TorontoIn this study, we undertake a socio-cultural analysis of fem...
Women, especially in northern Nigeria have become the silenced “subalterns” due to misconceptions ab...
This paper examines women’s struggle to overcome marginalization in a sexist and a patriarchal Niger...
Privately Empowered responds to the lack of adequate attention paid to Islam in Africa in comparison...
The status of Muslim women in the contemporary society has generated a lot of controversies and stil...
This paper discusses the rise and trends of Muslim/ Islamic feminism in the wake of application of S...
Throughout the political history of Islam, women played significant political roles in the affairs o...
Modern fiction in its attempt to address the woman question is re-focusingattention rather than on s...
Sufism, which is a mystical form of Islam, serves as the main form of religion followed by people li...
Hausa1 women have been either a major subject of discussion or at the receiving end of religious act...
African prose fictions have written on a whole number of ideas and perception, but have conspicuousl...
The issue of insecurity has remained the most challenging problem in the world including Nigeria. In...
Love in both traditional and modern African societies is seen as a peculiar act conditioned by the s...
The study explores the syndrome of domestic subjugation closely through a progression of already est...
<p>Throughout the political history of Islam, women played significant political roles in the ...
grantor: University of TorontoIn this study, we undertake a socio-cultural analysis of fem...
Women, especially in northern Nigeria have become the silenced “subalterns” due to misconceptions ab...
This paper examines women’s struggle to overcome marginalization in a sexist and a patriarchal Niger...
