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From Miniskirt to Hijab
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 263

From Miniskirt to Hijab

Jacqueline Saper, named after Jacqueline Kennedy, was born in Tehran to Iranian and British parents. At eighteen she witnessed the civil unrest of the 1979 Iranian revolution and continued to live in the Islamic Republic during its most volatile times, including the Iran-Iraq War. In a deeply intimate and personal story, Saper recounts her privileged childhood in prerevolutionary Iran and how she gradually became aware of the paradoxes in her life and community--primarily the disparate religions and cultures. In 1979 under the Ayatollah regime, Iran became increasingly unfamiliar and hostile to Saper. Seemingly overnight she went from living a carefree life of wearing miniskirts and attendin...

Muslims of the World
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 224

Muslims of the World

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2018-10-09
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  • Publisher: Abrams

We are living in a time of unrest for many members of the Islamic faith around the globe. Enter Muslims of the World, a book based on the popular Instagram account @MuslimsoftheWorld1. Like the account, the book’s mission is to tell the diverse stories of Muslims living in the US and around the world. Illustrated throughout with moving photographs, each chapter will focus on different aspects of the Islamic faith and the many varying cultures it encompasses, offering tales of love, family, and faith while empowering Muslim women, refugees, and people of color. Whether it is telling a story about a young Syrian refugee who dreams of being a pilot or about a young girl’s decision to not remove her hijab, which in turn saved her family’s life, Muslims of the World aims to unite people of all cultures and faiths by sharing the hopes, trials, and tribulations of Muslims from every walk of life.

Hijab
  • Language: en

Hijab

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2022-11-18
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  • Publisher: Unknown

This book depicts how the negative attitude of the global media outlets towards female Muslim women veiling in the West is continuously prevailing. He believes that ignorance, political agendas, as well as media commercial revenue are the main source of this pessimistic attitude toward Islam. This book is to create awareness for Muslim women, especially those living in the West to observe their religious attire to its fullest without having the fear of being unmodern and to evaluate and analyse modernity and its effects on the development and evolution of the religion of Islam in the contemporary world.

The Hijab
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 226

The Hijab

Historically, in India, we have instances of both unveiling and veiling that have been initiated by Indian Muslim women. The early 20th century saw many Muslim women joining the national movement, giving up veiling, feeling this was the only way for them to change their own, and the country's, future. Almost a hundred years later, the hijab continues to be a bone of contention in India, though in very different ways. On one hand, the rape threats that hijabi/non-hijabi women frequently encounter in the cyber world reflect the extreme desperation of the aggravated Hindutva millennials who are made to believe that unveiling Muslim women is their right while a large segment of Indian Muslim wom...

Hijab
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 400

Hijab

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2021-06-30
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  • Publisher: Unknown

This book provides an overview of the range of seminarian thinking in Iran on the controversial topic of the hijab. During the modern period, Iran has suffered a great deal of conflict and confusion caused by the impact of Western views on the hijab in the 19th century, Riza Shah Pahlavi's 1936 decree banning Islamic head coverings, and the imposition of the veil in the wake of the Islamic Revolution in 1979. Ḥijāb addresses the differences of opinion among seminarians on the hijab in the Islamic Republic of Iran, focusing on three representative thinkers: Murtaza Mutahhari who held veiling to be compulsory, Ahmad Qabil who argued for the desirability of the hijab, and Muhsin Kadivar who ...

Pink Shoes and Jilbaab
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 160

Pink Shoes and Jilbaab

SUCCESS OR HIJAB? PIETY OR PROGRESSIVENESS? WHY NOT ALL?! As she goes through life, A girl's head is filled with a lot of questions. For a hijabi, those questions are a lot more. But for an aspiring hijabi, it is mostly... "What if?" "Do I?" "How do I?" "But why not?!" "Oh no!" "What now?!" Pink Shoes and Jilbaab is a witty guide to Hijabsville. With many not-so-graceful moments from her personal life, Author Kiran Shah attempts to answer questions that might make the ride easier for the newbies. She will tell you what to expect, how to own it, and when to just duck and hide. Insightful and peppy, this book will have you on your feet and want to take some action instantly. Testimonials: "How...

Iran the People
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 36

Iran the People

The vast majority of Iranians are descended from the Aryans, Asian peoples who settled in what became known as Persia. Iran the people follows the history of this ancient land, from the height of the Persian Empire, through the Muslim conquest in the mid-600s, and the Revolution of 1979. Interesting photographs detail how today's Islamic Republic influences the daily lives of Iranians, especially in education and the role of women.

From Miniskirt to Hijab
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 232

From Miniskirt to Hijab

Jacqueline Saper, named after Jacqueline Kennedy, was born in Tehran to Iranian and British parents. At eighteen she witnessed the civil unrest of the 1979 Iranian revolution and continued to live in the Islamic Republic during its most volatile times, including the Iran-Iraq War. In a deeply intimate and personal story, Saper recounts her privileged childhood in prerevolutionary Iran and how she gradually became aware of the paradoxes in her life and community—primarily the disparate religions and cultures. In 1979 under the Ayatollah regime, Iran became increasingly unfamiliar and hostile to Saper. Seemingly overnight she went from living a carefree life of wearing miniskirts and attendi...

The Imam's Daughter
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 290

The Imam's Daughter

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2010-11-30
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  • Publisher: Random House

Hannah Shah is an Imam's daughter. She lived the life of a Muslim but, for many years, her father abused her in the cellar of their home. At 16 she discovered a plan to send her to Pakistan for an arranged marriage, and she ran away. Hunted by her angry father and brothers, who were determined to make her an honour killing, she had to keep moving house to escape them. Then, worst of all, in her family's eyes, she became a Christian. Some Muslims say converting from Islam is punishable by death...One day a mob of forty men came after her, armed with hammers, sticks and knives...with her father at the front... The Imam's Daughter is Hannah's gripping - but ultimately inspiring - true story. How, through her courage and determination, she broke free from her background and found a new life beyond its confines - a new life of freedom and love.

Anti-Veiling Campaigns in the Muslim World
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 305

Anti-Veiling Campaigns in the Muslim World

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-04-24
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  • Publisher: Routledge

In recent years bitter controversies have erupted across Europe and the Middle East about women’s veiling, and especially their wearing of the face-veil or niqab. Yet the deeper issues contained within these controversies – secularism versus religious belief, individual freedom versus social or family coercion, identity versus integration – are not new but are strikingly prefigured by earlier conflicts. This book examines the state-sponsored anti-veiling campaigns which swept across wide swathes of the Muslim world in the interwar period, especially in Turkey and the Balkans, Iran, Afghanistan and the Soviet republics of the Caucasus and Central Asia. It shows how veiling was officially discouraged and ridiculed as backward and, although it was rarely banned, veiling was politicized and turned into a rallying-point for a wider opposition. Asking a number of questions about this earlier anti-veiling discourse and the policies flowing from it, and the reactions which it provoked, the book illuminates and contextualizes contemporary debates about gender, Islam and modernism.