A quiet revolution : the veil's resurgence, from the Middle East to America
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- A quiet revolution : the veil's resurgence, from the Middle East to America
- Title remainder
- the veil's resurgence, from the Middle East to America
- Statement of responsibility
- Leila Ahmed
- Subject
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- Hijab (Islamic clothing)
- Hijab (Islamic clothing) -- Middle East
- Hijab (Islamic clothing) -- United States
- Hijab (islamisk klädedräkt)
- Islam
- Islam
- Islamism
- Kleidung
- Kopftuch
- Middle East
- Muslim women -- Clothing
- Muslim women -- Clothing
- Muslim women -- Clothing -- Middle East
- Muslim women -- Clothing -- United States
- Frau
- Muslimin
- Muslimska kvinnor -- kläder
- Naher Osten
- Naher Osten
- Schleier
- Schleier
- Slöjor
- USA
- USA
- United States
- Veils
- Veils
- Veils -- Middle East
- Veils -- United States
- Muslimin
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- In Cairo in the 1940s, Leila Ahmed was raised by a generation of women who never dressed in the veils and headscarves their mothers and grandmothers had worn. To them, these coverings seemed irrelevant to both modern life and Islamic piety. Today, however, the majority of Muslim women throughout the Islamic world again wear the veil. Why, Ahmed asks, did this change take root so swiftly, and what does this shift mean for women, Islam, and the West? When she began her study, Ahmed assumed that the veil's return indicated a backward step for Muslim women worldwide. However, the stories of British colonial officials, young Muslim feminists, Arab nationalists, pious Islamic daughters, American Muslim immigrants, violent jihadists, and peaceful Islamic activists, confounded her expectations. Ahmed observed that Islamism, with its commitments to activism in the service of the poor and in pursuit of social justice, is the strain of Islam most easily and naturally merging with western democracies' own tradition of activism in the cause of justice and social change. It is often Islamists, even more than secular Muslims, who are at the forefront of such contemporary activist struggles as civil rights and women's rights. Ahmed's surprising conclusions represent a near reversal of her thinking on this topic. This story of the veil's resurgence, from Egypt through Saudi Arabia and into the West, suggests a dramatically new portrait of contemporary Islam
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- DLC
- Dewey number
- 297.5/76
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- BP190.5.H44
- LC item number
- A46 2011
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
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