TY  - GEN
T1  - Privately Empowered
A1  - Edwin, Shirin
LA  - eng
PB  - Northwestern University Press
YR  - 2021
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/doab-20.500.12854-28848
AB  - Privately Empowered responds to the lack of adequate attention paid to Islam in Africa in comparison to the Middle East and the Arab world. Shirin Edwin points to the embrace between Islam and politics that has limited Islamic feminist discourse to regions where it evolves in tandem with the nation-state and is commonly understood in terms of activism, social affiliations, or struggles for legal reform. Edwin examines the novels of Zaynab Alkali, Abubakar Gimba, and Hauwa Ali due to their emphases on personal engagement, Islamic ritual in the quotidian, and observance of Qur’anic injunctions. Analysis of these texts connects the ways Muslim women in northern Nigeria balance their spiritual habits in ever changing configurations of their private domains. The spiritual universe of African Muslim women may be one where Islam is not the source of their problems or their political activity, but a spiritual activity devoid of political forms.
SN  -  9780810133693
KW  - Literature
KW  - Alkali
KW  - Feminism
KW  - Hausa people
KW  - Islam
KW  - Islamic feminism
KW  - Muslims
KW  - Quran
KW  - Women in Islam
ER  -