... BOOK REVIEWS  Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures I: Methodologies, Paradigms and Sources Edited by Suad Joseph et al. Leiden: Brill, 2003. xlix+632. US$326. Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures II...

...Kecia Ali Women in Islamic Biographical Collections: From Ibn Saʿd to Who’s Who . Ruth Roded . Piscataway, NJ : Gorgias , 2018 . xviii + 199 pages. isbn 9781463239305 . Copyright © 2020 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2020 Twenty-five years have elapsed...

...Afsane Rezaei Abstract This article explores domestic religious practices of Iranian Muslim women in Los Angeles. In the diasporic context, Iranian women’s voluntary engagement in vernacular Islamic practices is often associated with an unreflexive pursuit of religion and lack of agency...

...Mehrdad Alipour Abstract Muslim jurists have issued several fatwas (Islamic legal opinions) permitting gender-confirming surgery (GCS) for various groups of intersex and/or transgender people. However, these fatwas have been critiqued for conceiving of intersex and transgender individuals...

... of the living conditions under certain radical Islamic group members in refugee camps in Turkey present effective materials to support Schmidinger’s thesis that there is a lack of international political interest for the sufficient and sustainable protection of the Êzidi from revictimization. In this book...

...Shayna Silverstein Women, the Recited Qur’an, and Islamic Music in Indonesia , Rasmussen Anne K. . Berkeley : University of California Press , 2010 . 312 pages. ISBN: 978-0520-25549-4 . Copyright © 2012 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2012...

...Hina Azam The American Muslim landscape is suffused with mosque bookstores, independent book distributors, online retailers, and convention stalls offering English-speaking Muslims Islamic advice texts on a wide array of topics. Common among these popularly oriented writings are titles pertaining...

...Michelle Hartman Nazira Zeineddine: A Pioneer of Islamic Feminism , cooke miriam . Oxford : Oneworld , 2010 . 137 pages. ISBN 978-1-85168-769-5 . Copyright © 2013 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2013 book reviews  mn  133...

... an “expansion” of rights as a result of the revolution, she did not interview any of the women who benefited, stating that the “Islamic Republic is at a loss about what to do with women.” Nor does she examine the wide variety of policies concerning women’s rights that the government implemented (ibid., 44...

... and caesarean birth. The critical discourse and frame analysis, based on online speeches and media articles of these actors from November 2002 through 2014, reveal a remarkable diversity both in the interpretation of Islamic teachings and in a group of actors with similar ideological orientation. The article...

...Elyse Semerdjian Sexual Violation in Islamic Law: Substance, Evidence, and Procedure . Azam Hina . New York : Cambridge University Press , 2015 . 270 pages. isbn 9781107094246. Copyright © 2017 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2017 In her detailed study...

... ), by including the gender-specific experiences of women in war and conflict in the Middle East. I apply cooke’s insights in this and other works to the distinctive positioning and experiences of Muslim women in the current US culture war against Islam and its compatibility with citizenship and belonging...

...Indira Falk Gesink Abstract Sexuality scholarship demonstrates the historical production of the male/female sexual binary in scientific discourse. While some scholars have applied the insights of this scholarship to modern Islamic contexts, studies on intersex persons ( khuntha ) in premodern...

...Jane Bristol-Rhys Islamic Feminism in Kuwait: The Politics and Paradoxes , González Alessandra L. . New York : Palgrave , 2013 . 254 pages. ISBN 978-1-137-30473-5 . Copyright © 2014 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2014 book...

... Century Scholar. She publishes widely on secular and Islamic feminisms in the Middle East and Islamic world with works appearing in several languages including Arabic. Among her books are Feminists, Islam and Nation: Gender and the Making of Modern Egypt and Opening the Gates: An Arab Feminist...

...Louise Halper Women’s Rights and Islamic Family Law: Perspectives on Reform , Welchman Lynn , ed. London & New York : Zed Books Ltd , 2004 . 300 pp. $26.95 Copyright © 2006 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2006 102  JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EAST WOMEN’S STUDIES...

... BOOK REVIEWS  Women in Iran from 1800 to the Islamic Republic Lois Beck and Guity Nashat, eds. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2004. Pp. xiii, 288. ISBN 0252029372. Reviewed by Afsaneh Najmabadi, Harvard University...

... assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) using donor gametes and embryos have been legitimized by religious authorities and passed into law. This has placed Iran, a Shia-dominant country, in a unique position vis-à-vis the Sunni Islamic world, where all forms of gamete donation are strictly prohibited...

...Hania Sholkamy Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures, Volume 3: Family, Body, Sexuality, and Health , Joseph Suad , ed. Boston : Brill , 2006 . Pp. xix, 564 . ISBN 9789004128194 . Copyright © 2008 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2008 108  JOURNAL OF MIDDLE...

...Elham Gheytanchi Between Warrior Brother and Veiled Sister: Islamic Fundamentalism and the Politics of Patriarchy in Iran , Moallem Minoo . Berkeley : University of California Press , 2005 . Pp. ix, 269 . ISBN 0-520-24345-5 . Copyright © 2009 Association for Middle East Women’s...