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Equal Before God? - 9781894770767

Un libro in lingua di Sheema Khan edito da Utp Distribution, 2015

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Literary Nonfiction. Middle Eastern Studies. Women's Studies. In the past few years, mainstream Western societies have experienced tensions with the burgeoning Muslims communities living within them. The difficulties towards full integration, moreover, have been exacerbated by terrorism and fundamentalism on one hand and ignorance and fear on the other. This book argues that the main obstacle to successful Muslim integration in the West is not the violent or extremist fringe, but rather the attitudes and cultural practices of Muslim communities in relation to women. The reason is simple: Muslim communities overwhelmingly reject terrorism, whereas they continue to harbor views towards women that are at odds with prevailing Western norms of gender equality. Citing examples from North America, Europe, and elsewhere, the author concludes that the solution to the conundrum is not the abandonment of Islam, as some have proposed, but a reappraisal of its practice in light of history and modernity.

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