Women and peace in the Islamic world : gender, agency and influence / edited by Yasmin Saikia and Chad Haines.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Haines, Chad, editor.

Saikia, Yasmin, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women and peace.

Women in Islam.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (442 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2015.

Summary:

"How realistic is the prospect of peace in the Muslim world? This question is the predominant focus for global analysis today, but its debate frequently ignores the cultural and social complexity of the Muslim world, reducing it into a system of states and select actors. This book addresses such a failing by exploring how the everyday interactions of women, in accordance with Islamic personal ethics, can offer the world a new interpretation of peace. In particular, it focuses on the women in Islamic societies, from Aceh to Bosnia, Morocco to Bangladesh, initiating a dialogue on the role of these women in peacemaking. This concentration upon the complex issues of the everyday both enables a detailed exploration of how people conceptualise peace and opens up new frameworks for conflict resolution. The discussions that emerge lead to a critical questioning of assumptions about peace as a state policy and cessation of violence. Drawing upon original research from different parts of the Middle East, North Africa and Asia, including Iran, India, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bosnia, Egypt and Sudan, the contributors offer a refreshing new look at Muslim women as peacemakers, challenging any assumptions of Islam as an inherently violent religion. Such a timely work provides new and important analyses on the role of Muslim women in forging new pathways of peace in the contemporary world."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Situating Peace, Islam, and Women in the Everyday / Yasmin Saikia & Chad Haines

Section 1: Deliberations: Questioning the Normative

Chapter 1: Ungendering Peace Talk / Miriam Cooke

Chapter 2: Dialogical Din and Everyday Acts of Peace: An Islamic Perspective / Chad Haines

Chapter 3: Negotiating Islamic Feminism: Echoes of Medieval Theological Disputes in Modern Islam / Richard Martin

Section 2: Interventions: Claiming Public Space

Chapter 4: Women, Islam, Transnationalism: The Question of "Politics of Location" and other Contentions in Women's Organizing in Bangladesh / Elora Halim Chowdhury

Chapter 5: An Exploration of Three Contemporary Acehnese Peace Leaders / Asna Husin

Chapter 6: The Role of Muslim Women in Engendering Peace: Bilād Al-Sudan (Sudan and Nigeria) (Sudan and Nigeria) / Souad Ali

Section 3: Formations: Engendering Peace Dialogues

Chapter 7: Women and Peace-Building in the Muslim World / Ayse Kadayifci-Orellana

Chapter 8: Crime and Reconciliation: Women's Peace Initiatives in the Islamic Republic of Iran / Arzoo Osanloo

Chapter 9: Religion, Women and Peaceful Revolutions: Perspectives from the Arab Middle East / Azza Karam

Section 4: Relationships: Building Communities

Chapter 10: Strangers, Friends, and Peace: The women's world of Abdullah Hall, Aligarh Muslim University / Yasmin Saikia

Chapter 11: The Living Monuments of Mourning: Struggles for Memory and Peace in Post-Revolutionary Iran / Shahla Talebi

Chapter 12: Merhametli Peace is Woman's Peace: Religious and Cultural Practices of Compassion and Neighbourliness in Bosnia and Herzegovina / Zilka Spahić-Šiljak

Epilogue: Dialoguing Peace

Two Muslim Peacemakers

Daisy Khan and Cemalnur Sargut

Gender, Peace, and War: A Western Feminist Perspective / Sally Kitch

Author's Biographical Sketches

Bibliography.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780755608850

0755608852

9780857737250

0857737252

OCLC:

1001572058