The atmosphere is ripe for this new special-issue on Muslim women. This special-issue, which was in the works before the current political underpinning presents a holistic, global analysis on Muslim women in Africa and the Diaspora. The issue was lovingly guest-edited by the one and only, Professor Hadeer Abou El Nagah of Prince Sultan University in Saudi Arabia. It is really an insider’s analysis that also places Africa at the center of its analysis. This type of analysis is something that is often missing in a lot of texts about Muslims and on Islam. There is a lot of evidenced based analysis that makes this issue an excellent resource for teaching and research.
It is my honor to inform you that the peer-reviewed, award-winning JENdA: A Journal of Culture and African Women Studies has published “Muslim Women in Africa and the Diaspora: Past, Present and the Future” as Issue 28. This dynamic issue features critical research on Muslim women, and explores roles that Muslim women in Africa and the Diaspora has played and is playing to redefine themselves within Islam in contemporary times. This issue will make an excellent addition to those teaching classes about Islam, Africa, women, gender, and Muslims.
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Without further ado, the table of contents:
Issue 28: Muslim Women in Africa and the Diaspora: Past, Present and the Future
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Editorial: Muslim Women in Africa and The Diaspora: Past, Present and the Future
Hadeer Abo El Nagah
Becoming Black/Being Muslim, Race and Religion: The Question of Performativity, African Islam, Intersectionality and Multiple Identities
Ameena Al Rasheed
Women, Kanga and Political Movements in Zanzibar, 1958-1964
Amina Ameir Issa
Voices from the Diaspora: Towards a Gender Sensitive Re-Reading of the Qur’an
Hadeer Abo El Nagah
Women and Transmission of Islamic Knowledge in Cameroon: The Case Study of Ngaoundere, 1830-2015
Souley Mane
“Women Must Not Become Lions”: Social Roles of Muslim Women in Kankan, Guinea
Carole Ammann
Book Review. In Pursuit of Paradise; Senegalese Women, Muridism and Migration by Eva Evers Rosander, The Nordic Africa Institute, 2015.
Hadeer Abo El Nagah
