Karin Ask Chr. Michelsen Institute Marit Tjomsland Chr. Michelsen Institute

'This book is an important contribution to cross-cultural understanding of Muslim women.' Journal of Islamic Studies' 'Women and Islamization' makes a good job of contesting descriptions of women's relations to Islam as being universally its victims'Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 'Islamic feminism...leaves open the question, how does such an apparent oxymoron work? How can activism on behalf of women square with the imposition of religious norms that favour men? In other words how can one be a feminist and an observant muslim? This volume of essays about the impact of islamization on the social roles of women and their spiritual pratices starts to answer this vexed question by bringing a much needed, new perspective to a topic hemmed in by prejudice.'Association for Middle East Women's Studies

• Feminist reinterpretation of Islamic sources - Muslim feminist theology in the light of the Christian tradition of feminist thought, Anne Sofeie Roald; new veils and new voices - Islamist women's groups in Egypt, Soroya Duval; contested identities - women and religion in algeria and Jordan, Wilhelmina Jansen; public baths as private places, marjo Buitelaar; female derishes in contemporary Istanbul - between tradition and modernity, Catharina Raudvere; women and Muridism in Senegal - the case of the Mam Diarra Boussa Dahira in Mbacke, Eva Evers Rosander; reconstruction of Islamic knowledge and knowing - a case of Islamic practices among women in Iran, Zahra Kamalkhani.

Karin Ask Chr. Michelsen Institute Marit Tjomsland Chr. Michelsen Institute

'This book is an important contribution to cross-cultural understanding of Muslim women.' Journal of Islamic Studies' 'Women and Islamization' makes a good job of contesting descriptions of women's relations to Islam as being universally its victims'Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 'Islamic feminism...leaves open the question, how does such an apparent oxymoron work? How can activism on behalf of women square with the imposition of religious norms that favour men? In other words how can one be a feminist and an observant muslim? This volume of essays about the impact of islamization on the social roles of women and their spiritual pratices starts to answer this vexed question by bringing a much needed, new perspective to a topic hemmed in by prejudice.'Association for Middle East Women's Studies

• Feminist reinterpretation of Islamic sources - Muslim feminist theology in the light of the Christian tradition of feminist thought, Anne Sofeie Roald; new veils and new voices - Islamist women's groups in Egypt, Soroya Duval; contested identities - women and religion in algeria and Jordan, Wilhelmina Jansen; public baths as private places, marjo Buitelaar; female derishes in contemporary Istanbul - between tradition and modernity, Catharina Raudvere; women and Muridism in Senegal - the case of the Mam Diarra Boussa Dahira in Mbacke, Eva Evers Rosander; reconstruction of Islamic knowledge and knowing - a case of Islamic practices among women in Iran, Zahra Kamalkhani.