A01=Fedwa Malti-Douglas
Author_Fedwa Malti-Douglas
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contemporary islam
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female body
female spirituality
feminism
gender
gender relations
gender studies
islam
islamic fundamentalism
islamic revival
islamic women
male gaze
muslim
nonfiction
prophecy
religion
religious revival
religious transformation
religious women
sacred
salvation
spiritual vision
spirituality
women
Product details
- ISBN 9780520222847
- Weight: 363g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 01 Mar 2001
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In Medicines of the Soul, the autobiographical writings of three leading women in today's Islamic revival movement reveal dramatic stories of religious transformation. As interpreted by Fedwa Malti-Douglas, the autobiographies provide a powerful, groundbreaking portrayal of gender, religion, and discourses of the body in Arabo-Islamic culture. At the center of each story is a lively female Islamic spirituality that questions secular hierarchies while reaffirming patriarchal ones.
Fedwa Malti-Douglas is the Martha C. Kraft Professor of Humanities in the College of Arts and Sciences at Indiana University, Bloomington. Among her previous publications are Woman's Body, Woman's Word: Gender and Discourse in Arabo-Islamic Writing (1991), Men, Women, and God(s): Nawal El Saadawi and Arab Feminist Poetics (California, 1995), and a novel, Hisland: Adventures in Ac-Ac-Ademe (1998). Her most recent book is The Starr Report Disrobed (2000).
