Perceptions of Self, Power, & Gender Among Muslim Women

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Perceptions of Self, Power, & Gender Among Muslim Women is written by Sarwar Alam and published by Springer. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 3319737910 (ISBN 10) and 9783319737911 (ISBN 13).

This book analyzes perceptions of self, power, agency, and gender of Muslim women in a rural community of Bangladesh. Rural women’s limited power and agency has been subsumed within the male dominated Islamic discourses on gender. However, many Muslim women have their own alternative discourses surrounding power and agency. Sarwar Alam intertwines an exploration of these power dynamics with reading of the Qur’an and Hadith, and analyzes how Muslim women’s perception of power and gender are linked to their relationship with religion.