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Title Women embracing Islam [electronic resource] : gender and conversion in the West / edited by Karin van Nieuwkerk.

Imprint Austin : University of Texas Press, 2006.

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Edition 1st ed.
Description xii, 294 p. : ill.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Conversion and gender, two contested concepts / Willy Jansen -- Gender and conversion to Islam in the West / Karin van Nieuwkerk -- Contextualizing conversion -- The quest for peace in submission: reflections on the journey of American women converts to Islam / Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad -- The shaping of a Scandinavian "Islam": converts and gender equal opportunity / Anne Sofie Roald -- Symbolizing distance: conversion to Islam in Germany and the United States / Monika Wohlrab-Sahr -- Discourses and narratives -- Gender, conversion, and Islam: a comparison of online and offline conversion narratives / Karin van Nieuwkerk -- The shifting significance of the halal/haram frontier: narratives on the hijab and other issues / Stefano Allievi -- Trajectories and paradigms -- Female conversion to Islam: the Sufi paradigm / Haifaa Jawad -- African American Islam as an expression of converts' religious faith and nationalist dreams and ambitions / Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons -- Feminism and conversion: comparing British, Dutch, and South African life stories / Margot Badran -- Transmission and identity -- How Deborah became Aisha: the conversion process and the creation of female Muslim identity / Nicole Bourque -- Keeping the faith: convert Muslim mothers and the transmission of female Muslim identity in the West / Marcia Hermansen.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Muslim converts from Christianity -- Europe.
Muslim women -- Europe.
Women in Islam -- Europe.
Gender identity -- Europe.
Sex role -- Religious aspects -- Islam.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Nieuwkerk, Karin van, 1960-
ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 0292712731 (cloth : alk. paper)
0292713029 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780292712737 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780292713024 (pbk. : alk. paper)

 
    
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