Humanizing the Sacred Sisters in Islam and the Struggle for Gender Justice in Malaysia / Azza Basarudin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Basarudin, Azza, author.

Series:

Decolonizing Feminisms

Decolonizing feminisms

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Malaysia--Social conditions.

Women.

Women's rights--Malaysia.

Women's rights.

Muslim women--Political activity--Malaysia.

Muslim women.

Feminism--Religious aspects--Islam.

Feminism.

Feminism--Malaysia.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (350 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2016]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In recent years, global attention has focused on how women in communities of Muslims are revitalizing Islam by linking interpretation of religious ideas to the protection of rights and freedoms. Humanizing the Sacred demonstrates how Sunni women activists in Malaysia are fracturing institutionalized Islamic authority by generating new understandings of rights and redefining the moral obligations of their community. Based on ethnographic research of Sisters in Islam (SIS), a nongovernmental organization of professional women promoting justice and equality, Basarudin examines SIS members' involvement in the production and transmission of Islamic knowledge to reformulate legal codes and reconceptualize gender discourses. By weaving together women's lived realities, feminist interpretations of Islamic texts, and Malaysian cultural politics, this book illuminates how a localized struggle of claiming rights takes shape within a transnational landscape. It provides a vital understanding of how women "live" Islam through the integration of piety and reason and the implications of women's political activism for the transformation of Islamic tradition itself.

Contents:

Introduction: faith, self, and community

Islam, the state, and gender: the malaysian experiment

The politics of the sacred: returning to the fundamentals of Islam

In the path of the faithful: activism for social and legal reforms

Who speaks for Islam? Religious authority and contested justice

Negotiating lives, crafting selves: narratives of belonging

The local in the transnational: gender justice and feminist solidarities

Conclusion.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780295806341

0295806346

OCLC:

935254664