Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures
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Subject: Middle East and Islamic Studies
Edited by: Suad Joseph
The Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures Online is an interdisciplinary, trans-historical, and global project embracing women and Islamic cultures in every region where there have been significant Muslim populations. It aims to cover every topic for which there is significant research, examining these regions from the period just before the rise of Islam to the present. The Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures Online crosses history, geographic borders and disciplines to create a groundbreaking reference work reflecting the very latest research on gender studies and the Islamic world.
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The Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures Online is an interdisciplinary, trans-historical, and global project embracing women and Islamic cultures in every region where there have been significant Muslim populations. It aims to cover every topic for which there is significant research, examining these regions from the period just before the rise of Islam to the present. The Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures Online crosses history, geographic borders and disciplines to create a groundbreaking reference work reflecting the very latest research on gender studies and the Islamic world.
Subscriptions: see brill.nl
- Prelims to Volume 1
- List of Illustrations (Volume 1)
- List of Contributors to Volume 1
- Acknowledgments (Volume 1)
- Prelims to Volume 2
- List of Contributors to Volume 2
- Acknowledgments (Volume 2)
- Preface to Volume 2
- Prelims to Volume 3
- List of Contributors to Volume 3
- Acknowledgments (Volume 3)
- Preface to Volume 3
- Prelims to Volume 4
- List of Contributors to Volume 4
- Acknowledgments (Volume 4)
- Preface to Volume 4
- Prelims to Volume 5
- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Volume 1: Methodologies, Paradigms and Sources for Studying Women and Islamic Cultures; Thematic Entries
- Adab Literature: 9th to 13th Century
- Rise of Islam: 6th to 9th Century
- Andalusian Literature: 9th to 15th Century
- Crusade Literature: 9th to 15th Century
- Turkic Dynasties: 9th to 15th Century
- Islamic Biographical Dictionaries: 9th to 10th Century
- Islamic Biographical Dictionaries: 11th to 15th Century
- Legal and Jurisprudential Literature: 9th to 15th Century
- Literature: 9th to 15th Century
- The Spread of Islam in Southeast Asia: 15th to Mid-18th Century
- The Spread of Islam in China: 7th to Mid-17th Century
- Mughal India: 15th to Mid-18th Century
- Ottoman Empire: 15th to Mid-18th Century
- Central Asia: 15th to Mid-18th Century
- Safavid Iran: 16th to Mid-18th Century
- Sub-Saharan Africa: 15th to Early 18th Century
- Colonialism: 18th to Early 20th Century
- Caucasus: Mid-18th to Early 20th Century
- History of Islam in China: Mid-18th to Early 20th Century
- Muslim Communities in China: Mid-18th to Early 20th Century
- Eastern Turkestan: Mid-18th to Late 20th Century
- Malay World: 18th to Early 20th Century
- Ottoman Arab Region: Mid-18th to Early 20th Century
- Women in the Ottoman World: Mid-18th to Early 20th Century
- Morocco: Mid-18th to Early 20th Century
- Qājār Iran: Mid-18th to Early 20th Century
- South Asia: Mid-18th to Early 20th Century
- Sub-Saharan Africa: Mid-18th to Early 20th Century
- North America: Early 20th Century to Present
- Arab States Overview: Early 20th Century to Present
- Egypt: Early 20th Century to Present
- North Africa: Early 20th Century to Present
- Arabian Peninsula: Early 20th Century to Present
- Jordan, Israel, and Palestine: Early 20th Century to Present
- Malaysia and Singapore: Early 20th Century to Present
- Philippines, Thailand, Singapore, Burma, Cambodia, Laos: Early 20th Century to Present
- Indonesia: Early 20th Century to Present
- Islam in Southeast Asia: Early 20th Century to Present
- Eastern Europe: Early 20th Century to Present
- Iran: Early 20th Century to Present
- Afghanistan: 19th and 20th Centuries
- Soviet Central Asia and Azerbaijan: 1917–1991
- Central Asia: Post-Soviet Period
- South Asia: Early 20th Century to Present
- Sub-Saharan Africa: Early 20th Century to Present
- Turkey: Early 20th Century to Present
- Western Europe: 1945 to Present
- Volume 1: Methodologies, Paradigms and Sources for Studying Women and Islamic Cultures; Disciplinary Entries
- Anthropology
- Art and Architecture
- Demography
- Economics
- Folklore
- Geography
- History: Middle East and North Africa
- History: East, South, and Southeast Asia
- History of Science
- Islamic Studies
- Legal Studies
- Linguistics
- Literary Studies
- Oral History
- Orientalism
- Philosophy
- Political Science
- Population and Health Studies
- Sexualities and Queer Studies
- Religious Studies
- Euro-American Women's Studies and Islamic Cultures
- Women's Studies/Gender Studies
- Volume 1: Women and Islamic Cultures: A Bibliography of Books and Articles in European Languages since 1993
- Afghanistan
- Africa (general)
- Albania and the Albanians
- Algeria
- Arab world (general)
- Art (Muslim)
- Arts (performing)
- Australia & New Zealand
- Azerbaijan
- Bahrain
- Bangladesh (since 1971)
- Belgium
- Benin
- Berbers (general)
- Bibliography
- Bosnia-Herzegovina
- Brazil
- Bulgaria
- Burkina Faso
- Cameroon
- Canada
- Central Asia (general)
- Chad
- China, including Xinjiang
- Comoros
- Crimea
- Cyprus
- Denmark
- East Africa (general)
- Egypt
- Eritrea & Ethiopia
- Europe (general)
- France
- Gambia
- General; more than two countries, areas or subjects
- Germany
- Ghana
- Great Britain
- Gulf (general)
- Horn of Africa (general)
- India (since 1947)
- Indonesia
- Iran
- Iraq
- Islamism
- Israel
- Italy
- Ivory Coast
- Jibuti
- Jordan
- Kazakhstan
- Kenya
- Kurds
- Kuwait
- Kyrgyzstan
- Lebanon
- Libya
- Literatures
- Maghrib (general)
- Malaysia
- Mali
- Mauritania
- Mediæval Islam
- Morocco
- Netherlands
- Niger
- Nigeria
- Norway
- Oman
- Ottoman & pre-Ottoman Turkey
- Pakistan (since 1947)
- Palestine & the Palestinians
- Philippines
- Photography & documentary films
- Qatar
- Russia & Russian Empire
- Saudi Arabia
- Senegal
- Sierra Leone
- Somalia
- South Africa (general)
- South Asia (before Partition)
- South East Asia (general)
- Spain
- Sri Lanka
- Sudan
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Syria
- Tajikistan
- Tanzania (mainland)
- Trinidad
- Tunisia
- Turkey (since 1922)
- Turkmens & Turkmenistan
- Uganda
- United Arab Emirates
- United States of America
- Uzbekistan
- West Africa (general)
- Western Sahara
- Western arts & literatures
- Yemen
- Zanzibar
- Volume 2: Family, Law and Politics
- Adoption and Fostering
- Apostasy
- Armenian Women
- Bahāʾī Women
- Citizenship
- Civil Society
- Civil Society and Democracy Ideologies
- Colonialism and Imperialism
- Colonialism and Imperialism
- Constitutions
- Democracy Ideologies
- Divorce and Custody: Contemporary Practices
- Domestic Violence
- Domesticity
- Family Relations
- Families: Metaphors of Nation
- Family: Modern Islamic Discourses
- Family: Modern Islamic Discourses
- Family Relations
- Fatwa
- Freedom of Expression
- Freedom of Expression
- Friendship
- Gender Socialization
- Gender Socialization
- Gossip
- Honor
- Honor: Crimes of
- Honor: Feminist Approaches to
- Hospitality
- Hospitality
- Household Division of Labor
- Household Forms and Composition
- Human Rights
- Human Rights
- Identity Politics
- Identity Politics
- Infanticide and Abandonment of Female Children
- Inheritance: Contemporary Practice
- International Conventions
- International Organizations
- Jewish Women
- Jihad
- Jihad
- Kinship, Descent Systems
- Kinship, Descent Systems and State
- Kinship: Idiomatic
- Kinship, Idiomatic
- Kinship and State
- Kinship: Milk
- Kurdish Women
- Law: Access to the Legal System
- Law: Articulation of Islamic and non-Islamic Systems
- Law: Criminal
- Law: Cultural Defense
- Law: Customary
- Law: Enforcement
- Law: The Four Sunnī Schools of Law
- Law: Other Schools of Family Law
- Law: Family Law, 7th–Late 18th Centuries
- Law: Modern Family Law, 1800–Present
- Law: Modern Family Law, 1800–Present
- Law: Women as Witnesses
- Memory, Women, and Community
- Memory, Women, and Community
- Memory, Women, and Community
- Military: Women's Participation in
- Military: Women's Participation
- Modesty Discourses
- Modesty Discourses
- Motherhood
- Nation, Women, and Gender
- National Insignia, Signs, and Monuments
- Networks
- Patronage and Clientage
- Patronage and Clientage
- Peacekeeping and Conflict Management
- Peacekeeping and Conflict Management
- Political Parties and Participation
- Political Prisoners
- Political Prisoners
- Political Regimes
- Political-Social Movements: Ethnic and Minority
- Political-Social Movements: Ethnic and Minority
- Political-Social Movements: Feminist
- Political-Social Movements: Feminist
- Political-Social Movements: Islamist Movements and Discourses
- Political-Social Movements: Islamist Movements and Discourses and Religious Associations
- Political-Social Movements: Millenarian
- Political-Social Movements: Millenarian
- Political-Social Movements: Peace Movements
- Political-Social Movements: Protest Movements
- Political-Social Movements: Revolutionary
- Political-Social Movements: Unions and Workers' Movements
- Political-Social Movements: Unions and Workers' Movements
- Postcolonial Dissent
- Public Office
- Public/Private Dichotomy
- Race, Gender, and Difference
- Race, Gender, and Difference
- Rape
- Rape
- Religious Associations
- Religious Associations
- Sectarianism and Confessionalism
- Sectarianism and Confessionalism
- Secularism
- Sexual Abuse: Children
- Shah Bano Affair
- Social Hierarchies: Modern
- Stereotypes
- Stereotypes
- Sufi Orders and Movements
- Sufi Orders and Movements
- Umma
- Women's Rights: Male Advocacy
- Women's Studies Programs in Muslim Countries
- Women's Unions and National Organizations
- Youth Culture and Movements
- Youth Culture and Movements
- Zoroastrian Women
- Volume 3: Family, Body, Sexuality and Health
- Aging
- Amulets, Fortune-Telling, and Magic
- Bodily Waste
- Body: Female
- Body: Female
- Breastfeeding
- Celibacy
- Child Marriage
- Childhood: Coming of Age Rituals
- Childhood: Premodern and Modern
- Courtship
- Courtship
- Disabilities
- Disabilities
- Food Preparation
- Food Preparation
- Funerary Practices
- Genital Cutting
- Health: Drug Use
- Health: Drug Use
- Health: Education
- Health Education
- Health: HIV and AIDS
- Health: HIV and AIDS
- Health Policies
- Health Policies
- Health and Poverty
- Health: Practices
- Health Practices
- Health Practices and Nutrition and Dietary Practices
- Health and Reproductive Health
- Health: Sexually Transmitted Diseases
- Incest
- Love: Modern Discourses
- Love: Modern Discourses
- Love: Premodern Discourses
- Marriage: Islamic Discourses
- Marriage Practices
- Mental Health
- Mental Health
- Nutrition and Dietary Practices
- Population Planning and Policies
- Reproduction: Abortion
- Reproduction: Abortion and Islam
- Reproduction: Birthing Practices
- Reproduction: Birthing Practices
- Reproduction: Conception, Reproductive Choices, and Islam
- Reproduction: Health
- Reproduction: Infertility
- Reproduction: Medicalization of
- Reproduction: New Technologies
- Science: Medicalization and the Female Body
- Science and Local Practices
- Science and Modern Islamic Discourses
- Science and Nation
- Sexual Harrassment
- Sexual Harassment
- Sexualities: Practices
- Sexualities: Practices
- Sexualities: Scientific Discourses, Modern
- Sexualities: Scientific Discourses, Premodern
- Sexualities: Sex Education Manuals, Modern
- Sexualities: Transsexualities
- Sexualities: Transvestism
- Sleeping Fetus
- Spirit Possession
- Sports
- Suicide
- Transsexualism
- Scholars and Scholarship: Production of Doctoral Knowledge on Women and Islamic Cultures
- Virginity
- Volume 4: Economics, Education, Mobility, and Space
- Cities: Colonial Cities
- Cities: Homelessness
- Cities: Homelessness
- Cities: Informal Settlements
- Cities: Islamic Cities
- Cities: Urban Built Environments
- Cities: Urban Built Environments
- Cities: Urban Identities
- Cities: Urban Identities
- Cities: Urban Movements
- Cities: Urban Movement
- Development: Community-Based Organizations
- Development: Community-Based Organizations
- Development: Discourses and Practices
- Development: Discourse and Practices
- Development: Family
- Development: Housing Policies and Projects
- Development: Non-Governmental Organizations
- Development: Non-Governmental Organizations
- Development: Sustainable Development
- Economics: Access to Credit Organizations
- Economics: Advertising and Marketing
- Economics: Agricultural Labor
- Economics: Child Labor
- Economics: Commodification and Consumption
- Economics: Cottage Industries
- Economics: Cottage Industries
- Economics: Crafts
- Economics: Foreign Aid
- Economics: Foreign Aid
- Economics: Global Markets
- Economics: Global Markets
- Economics: Industrial Labor
- Economics: Industrial Labor
- Economics: Informal Sector
- Economics: Islamic Banks
- Economics: Labor and Health
- Economics: Labor Profiles
- Economics: Labor Profiles
- Economics: Land Reform
- Economics: Land Reform
- Economics: Markets and Trading
- Economics: Paid Domestic Labor
- Economics: Pastoral Economies
- Economics: Pastoral Economics
- Economics: Professional Occupations
- Economics: Sex Workers
- Economics: Small Businesses
- Economics: Small Businesses
- Economics: Social and Welfare Policies
- Economics: Traditional Professions
- Economics: Women's Banks
- Economics: World Markets
- Education: Colonial
- Education: Colonial
- Education: Colonial and Missionary
- Education: Missionary
- Education: (Early through Late) Modern
- Education: (Early through Late) Modern
- Education: National Curricula
- Education: National Curricula
- Education: Post-Secondary
- Education: Post-Secondary
- Education: Premodern, Pre-Nineteenth Century
- Education: Vocational
- Education: Vocational
- Education: Women's Religious
- Education: Women's Religious
- Environment
- Environment: Change and Natural Resource Extraction
- Environment: Environmental Organizations
- Environment: Water and Pollution
- Environment: Water and Pollution
- Information Technologies
- Migration: Asylum
- Migration: Diasporas in Muslim Societies
- Migration: Diasporas in Muslim Societies
- Migration: Environment Displacement
- Migration: Environment Displacement
- Migration: Internal Displacement
- Migration: Labor and Remittances
- Migration: Labor and Remittances
- Migration: Muslim Diasporas
- Migration: Muslim Diasporas
- Migration: Policies and Laws
- Migration: Policies and Laws
- Migration: Refugee Camps
- Migration: Refugee Education
- Migration: Refugee Regimes
- Migration: Refugee Women's Narratives
- Migration: Refugees and Health
- Migration: Regional
- Migration: Repatriation
- Migration: Safe Havens
- Poverty
- Slavery
- Slavery
- Space: Architecture
- Space: Domestic
- Space: Domestic
- Space: Female Space
- Space: Ḥammām
- Space: Harem
- Space: Mosques
- Space: Mosques
- Tourism
- Tourism
- Volume 5: Practices, Interpretations and Representations
- Arts: Belly Dancers
- Arts: Composers
- Arts: Dance: Expression and Ritual
- Arts: Fiction and Fiction Writers
- Arts: Film Directors and Film Stars
- Arts: Film Directors and Film Stars
- Arts: Folk Dancers and Folk Singers
- Arts: Performers and Performing Groups
- Arts: Poets and Poetry
- Arts: Popular Culture
- Arts: Remembrances and Narrations
- Arts: Remembrances and Narrations
- Arts: Storytellers and Raconteurs
- Arts: Sung Praise Poetry
- Arts: Theater
- Arts: Visual Arts and Artists
- Arts: Women Journalists and Women's Press
- Arts: Women Journalists and Women's Press
- Arts: World Music
- Islam: Critiques of the Impact of the Emergence of Islam on Women
- Islam: Early Expansion and Women
- Islam: Islam and Modernities
- Islam: Jewish and Muslim Sources, Discourses, and Interactions
- Islam: Saints and Sacred Geographies
- Language: Use by Women
- Qurʾān: Modern Interpretations
- Qurʾān: Qurʾān and Early Tafsīr
- Religious Practices: Ablution, Purification, Prayer, Fasting, and Piety
- Religious Practices: Conversion
- Religious Practices: Conversion
- Religious Practices: Obedience and Disobedience in Islamic Discourses
- Religious Practices: Piety
- Religious Practices: Pilgrimage
- Religious Practices: Preaching and Women Preachers
- Religious Practices: Prophecy and Women Prophets
- Religious Practices: Religious Commemorations
- Religious Practices: Waqf
- Religious Practices: Zakāt (Almsgiving) and Other Charitable Practices
- Representations: Afterlife Stories
- Representations: Creation Stories
- Representations: Dream Literature
- Representations: Erotic Literature
- Representations: Fiction, Modern
- Representations: Film
- Representations: Film
- Representations: Humorous Depictions
- Representations: Legends and Epics
- Representations: Legends, Epics, and Performance
- Representations: Metaphors of the Female Body
- Representations: Music
- Representations: Muslim Women and Gender in the Colonial Imagination
- Representations: Poetry, Modern
- Representations: Poetry and Prose, Premodern
- Representations: Print, Broadcast, and Electronic Media
- Representations: Proverbs, Adages, and Riddles
- Representations: Qurʾān
- Representations: Romance Fiction
- Representations: Sufi Literature
- Representations: Sufi Women, Early Period, Seventh–Tenth Centuries
- Representations: Theater
- Representations: Visual Arts
- Representations: The Wiles of Women Literature
- Supplement I
- Cinema: Films Made by Women Screenwriters, Directors, and Producers: Indonesia
- Cinema: Films Made by Women Screenwriters, Directors, and Producers: Malaysia
- Cinema: Films Made by Women Screenwriters, Directors, and Producers: Morocco
- Cinema: Films Made by Women Screenwriters, Directors, and Producers: The Arab World and its Diaspora
- Cinema: Representations in Commercial Films: India
- Construction of Individual Women as Iconic Representatives: Overview: Southeast Asia
- Construction of Individual Women as Iconic Representatives: Arab World
- Construction of Individual Women as Iconic Representatives: Indonesia: Raden Ajeng Kartini
- Construction of Individual Women as Iconic Representatives: Indonesia: Fatimah al-Zahra
- Construction of Individual Women as Iconic Representatives: Malaysia
- Laboring Practices: Southeast Asia
- National and Transnational Security Regimes: United Kingdom
- New Modes of Communication: Web Representations and Blogs: Overview
- New Modes of Communication: Web Representations and Blogs: Iran
- New Modes of Communication: Web Representations and Blogs: North Africa
- New Modes of Communication: Web Representations and Blogs: United States: South Asians
- Production of Knowledge: States, Discourses, Policies: United States and United Kingdom
- Religious Practices: Ablution and Purification: Prayer, Fasting, and Piety: Central Arab States and Egypt
- Representations: Memoirs, Autobiographies, and Biographies: Algeria: Francophone
- Representations: Memoirs, Autobiographies, and Biographies: Arab World
- Representations: Memoirs, Autobiographies, Biographies: Writing in Another Language: Iranian Women Writing in English
- Representations: Memoirs, Autobiographies, and Biographies: Writing in Another Language: Palestinians Writing in English
- Political-Social Movements Religious Associations: Argentina
- Production of Knowledge: Non-Governmental Organizations: Bangladesh
- Production of Knowledge: Non-Governmental Organizations: Iraq
- Production of Knowledge on Women: Non-Governmental Organizations: Lebanon
- Production of Knowledge on Women: Non-Governmental Organizations: Maghrib
- Representations: Theater: Bangladesh
- Representations: Visual Arts: Television: Canada
- Supplement II
- Cinema: Films Made by Women Screen Writers, Directors, Producers: Women Documentary Filmmakers: Pakistan
- Cinema: Representations in Commercial Films: Lebanon
- Diaspora studies: Australia
- Domestic Violence: Muslim Communities: United States of America
- Funerary Rites for Women Victims of “Honor Killings”: Indus Valley
- Music: Indonesia
- National and Transnational Security Regimes: Canada
- National and Transnational Security Regimes: United States of America
- New Modes of Communication: Social Networking, Text Messaging, Skype: Indonesia
- Political-Social Movements: Academic: United States of America
- Political-Social Movements: Homosexuality and Queer Movements: Southeast Asia
- Production of Knowledge: International Development Agencies
- Production of Knowledge: Non-Governmental Organizations: Egypt
- Production of Knowledge: Non-Governmental Organizations: Indonesia
- Production of Knowledge: Non-Governmental Organizations: Malaysia
- Representations: Children’s Literatures: North America
- Representations: Memoirs, Autobiographies, Biographies: United States of America
- Representations: Memoirs, Autobiographies, Biographies: Writing in Another Language: Iraqi Women Writing in English
- Representations: Romance Fiction: Canada, United States of America, United Kingdom, Australia
- Supplement III
- Arts: Performers and performing groups: India and Bangladesh
- Arts: Poets and Poetry: Arab American
- Cinema: Representations in Commercial Films: India
- Cinema: Representations in Commercial Films: India
- Economics: Sex Workers: United States of America Military: Bosnia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq, Gulf Region
- Education: Women’s Religious: Pakistan
- Law: Modern Family Law, 1800–Present: Southeast Asia
- Migration: Regional: Uzbekistan
- Music: Hip Hop, Spoken Word and Rap: United States of America
- Music: India
- Music: Malaysia
- New Modes of Communication: Social Networking, Text Messaging, Skype: Egypt
- New Modes of Communication: Web Representations and Blogs: Malaysia
- Political-Social Movements: Homosexuality and Queer Movements: United States of America
- Representations: Children’s Literature: Egypt
- Representations: Children’s Literatures: India
- Representations: Memoirs, Autobiographies, Biographies: West Africa
- Representations: Memoirs, Autobiographies, Biographies: Writing in Another Language: Overview
- Sufi Orders and Movements: Indonesia
- Theater: Plays by Women Playwrights, Directors, and Producers in Islamic Cultures: India
- Youth Culture and Youth Movements: United States of America
- Supplement IV
- New Modes of Communication: Internet Cafés: Palestine
- New Modes of Communication: Web Representations and Blogs: Indonesia
- Arts: Visual Arts and Artists: Indonesia
- Economics: Industrial Labor: Malaysia
- Representations: Lebanon
- Representations: Visual Arts: Television: Indonesia
- Political-Social Movements: Community-Based: China
- Cinema: Representations in Commercial Films: Egypt
- Economics: Crafts: Indonesia and Malaysia
- Arts: Theater: Malaysia
- Economics: Advertising and Marketing: Egypt
- Representations: The Veiled Muslim Woman: North America
- Qur’ān: Modern Interpretations: Indonesia
- Arts: Fiction and Fiction Writers: Pakistan
- National and Transnational Security Regimes: Israel/Palestine
- New Modes of Communication: Online Dating: South Asia