Humanizing the sacred : sisters in Islam and the struggle for gender justice in Malaysia /
Azza Basarudin.
- 1 online resource (350 pages).
- Decolonizing Feminisms .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: faith, self, and community -- Islam, the state, and gender: the malaysian experiment -- The politics of the sacred: returning to the fundamentals of Islam -- In the path of the faithful: activism for social and legal reforms -- Who speaks for Islam? Religious authority and contested justice -- Negotiating lives, crafting selves: narratives of belonging -- The local in the transnational: gender justice and feminist solidarities -- Conclusion.
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Feminism--Malaysia. Feminism--Religious aspects--Islam. Muslim women--Political activity--Malaysia. Women's rights--Malaysia. Women--Social conditions.--Malaysia