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oapen-20.500.12657-313852021-11-04T14:14:18Z Privately Empowered Edwin, Shirin Literature Alkali Feminism Hausa people Islam Islamic feminism Muslims Quran Women in Islam 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. 2017-04-01 23:55:55 2020-03-12 03:00:30 2020-04-01T13:33:25Z 2020-04-01T13:33:25Z 2016-11-15 book 628780 OCN: 961006959 9780810133693 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/31385 eng application/pdf n/a 628780.pdf Northwestern University Press 10.26530/oapen_628780 100708 10.26530/oapen_628780 b4699693-8bd9-4982-b22e-c153becb6f4b b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9780810133693 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) Evanston, Illinois 100708 KU Select 2016 Front List Collection Knowledge Unlatched open access
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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.
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