Privately Empowered: Expressing Feminism in Islam in Northern Nigerian Fiction

Author:   Shirin Edwin
Publisher:   Northwestern University Press
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9780810133679


Pages:   264
Publication Date:   30 November 2016
Format:   Paperback
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Privately Empowered: Expressing Feminism in Islam in Northern Nigerian Fiction


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Privately Empowered responds to the lack of adequate attention paid to Islam in Africa in comparison to Islam in the Middle East and the Arab world. Shirin Edwin points to the tight embrace between Islam and politics that has rendered Islamic feminist discourse historically and thematically contextualized in regions where Islamic feminism evolves in tandem with the nation-state and is commonly understood in terms of activism, social affiliations, or struggles for legal reform. In Africa itself, Islam bears the burden of being a “foreign” presence that is considered injurious to African Muslim women’s success. Edwin examines the fictional works of the northern Nigerian novelists Zaynab Alkali, Abubakar Gimba, and Hauwa Ali due to the texts’ emphases on personal and private engagement, Islamic ritual and prayer in the quotidian, and observance of Qur’anic injunctions. Analysis of these texts connects the ways in which Muslim women in northern Nigeria balance their spiritual habits in ever changing configurations of their personal and private domains. The spiritual universe of African Muslim women may be one where Islam is not the source of their problems or their legislative and political activity, but a spiritual activity that can exist devoid of activist or political forms.

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Author:   Shirin Edwin
Publisher:   Northwestern University Press
Imprint:   Northwestern University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.60cm
Weight:   0.348kg
ISBN:  

9780810133679


ISBN 10:   0810133679
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   30 November 2016
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Temporarily unavailable   Availability explained
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Shirin Edwin is an associate professor of French in the Department of Foreign Languagesat Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas, USA.

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