LEADER 04075nam 2200721Ia 450 001 9910807394503321 005 20240418004220.0 010 $a1-283-09627-7 010 $a9786613096272 010 $a0-300-17505-1 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300175059 035 $a(CKB)2550000000032908 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH23050185 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000472525 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11318779 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000472525 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10435201 035 $a(PQKB)10421251 035 $a(DE-B1597)486408 035 $a(OCoLC)719383757 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300175059 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3420680 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10466270 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL309627 035 $a(OCoLC)923595985 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3420680 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000032908 100 $a20101119d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 12$aA quiet revolution $ethe veil's resurgence, from the Middle East to America /$fLeila Ahmed 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew Haven $cYale University Press$dc2011 215 $a1 online resource (320 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-300-17095-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction --$t1. Unveiling --$t2. The Veil's Vanishing Past --$t3. The 1970's --$t4. The New Veil --$t5. The 1980's --$t6. Islamist Connections --$t7. Migrations --$t8. The 1990's --$tPrologue --$t9. Backlash --$t10. ISNA and the Women of ISNA --$t11. American Muslim Women's Activism in the Twenty-First Century --$tNotes --$tIndex 330 $aIn Cairo in the 1940's, Leila Ahmed was raised by a generation of women who never dressed in the veils and headscarves their mothers and grandmothers had worn. To them, these coverings seemed irrelevant to both modern life and Islamic piety. Today, however, the majority of Muslim women throughout the Islamic world again wear the veil. Why, Ahmed asks, did this change take root so swiftly, and what does this shift mean for women, Islam, and the West? When she began her study, Ahmed assumed that the veil's return indicated a backward step for Muslim women worldwide. What she discovered, however, in the stories of British colonial officials, young Muslim feminists, Arab nationalists, pious Islamic daughters, American Muslim immigrants, violent jihadists, and peaceful Islamic activists, confounded her expectations. Ahmed observed that Islamism, with its commitments to activism in the service of the poor and in pursuit of social justice, is the strain of Islam most easily and naturally merging with western democracies' own tradition of activism in the cause of justice and social change. It is often Islamists, even more than secular Muslims, who are at the forefront of such contemporary activist struggles as civil rights and women's rights. Ahmed's surprising conclusions represent a near reversal of her thinking on this topic. Richly insightful, intricately drawn, and passionately argued, this absorbing story of the veil's resurgence, from Egypt through Saudi Arabia and into the West, suggests a dramatically new portrait of contemporary Islam. 606 $aHijab (Islamic clothing)$zMiddle East 606 $aHijab (Islamic clothing)$zUnited States 606 $aMuslim women$xClothing$zMiddle East 606 $aMuslim women$xClothing$zUnited States 606 $aVeils$zMiddle East 606 $aVeils$zUnited States 615 0$aHijab (Islamic clothing) 615 0$aHijab (Islamic clothing) 615 0$aMuslim women$xClothing 615 0$aMuslim women$xClothing 615 0$aVeils 615 0$aVeils 676 $a297.5/76 700 $aAhmed$b Leila$0144313 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910807394503321 996 $aA quiet revolution$94054258 997 $aUNINA