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Determining Islamic authority in North America (II) Asma Barlas (On March 8, I was invited to a conference on “Islam in America, 2003,” organized by the Muslim students organization at Harvard Divinity School. This e

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    52Islamic feminists / Religion / Islam in the United States / Islamic feminism / Feisal Abdul Rauf / Asra Nomani / Islam and women / Feminism / Islam

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DATE: November 7, 2006 Daisy Khan, Executive Director, ASMA Society New York P: direct; e-mail: Faisal Shah, Press Coordinator, ASMA Society New York P:

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    Language: English - Date: 2008-02-28 12:20:15
    53Interpersonal relationships / Sexual acts / Fiction / Novel / Sexual intercourse / English literature / Human behavior / Human sexuality / Behavior

    Literature and Imagination Asma Barlas The curricular struggle over which novels should be taught in the English Department of Punjab University, my alma mater, has come as a shock to many people, but I must confess to b

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    Language: English - Date: 2005-12-15 11:09:24
    54Biology of gender / Cultural anthropology / Forms of government / Gender studies / Sociobiology / Asma Barlas / Patriarchy / Goddess / Modesty / Social philosophy / Sociology / Feminism

    Interpreting religion and tradition Asma Barlas I think it’s fair to say that historically patriarchies have abused both sacred and secular knowledge to discriminate against women. In religious patriarchies, the ideolo

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    Language: English - Date: 2005-12-15 11:09:19
    55Military history of the United States / Definitions of terrorism / International law / Terrorism / Ethics / War in Afghanistan / My Lai Massacre / War / Vietnam War / Violence / War rape

    Hostile Intent: the elisions of war Asma Barlas Nine months after September 11th, it remains unclear if the U.S.’s wholesale bombing of Afghanistan, with its mounting toll of civilian casualties and colossal destructio

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    Secularizing religion and sacralizing politics Asma Barlas The oppression carried out in the name of Islam in most Muslim countries, especially by the state itself, has convinced many Muslims that the only way to end rel

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      57Asma Barlas / Sharia / Khalilah Sabra / Islam in the United States / Islam / Religion / Islam and women

      Muslims in the US (II) Asma Barlas (This is an edited transcript of a talk that Dr. Barlas gave at a forum organized by the Strategic Research Foundation on May 24 in California. Part I was published on June 17). There a

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      Language: English - Date: 2005-12-15 11:09:33
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      The Political is Personal Asma Barlas Last September, shortly after President George W. Bush asked the (in)famous question about the hijackers of 9/11—“why do they hate us?”—I gave a talk in Ithaca, suggesting se

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      Language: English - Date: 2005-12-15 11:09:35
        59Abrahamic religions / Asma Barlas / Sharia / Quran / Islam and domestic violence / Zina / Islam / Islam and women / Religion

        Islam, women, and equality (part I) Asma Barlas (On March 19, I was invited to give a keynote address at Ithaca College on my book, “Believing Women” in Islam, Unreading Patriarchal Interpretations of the Qur’an [U

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        Language: English - Date: 2005-08-27 12:27:01
        60Philosophy of life / Evil / Virtue / De / Good and evil / Ethics / Social philosophy / Philosophy of religion

        The Academy, 9/11, and Renewal Asma Barlas Earlier this year (Daily Times, April 9, 2002), I referred to an essay by the noted Chilean playright, Ariel Dorfman, in which he wrote that the events of September 11th had ope

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        Language: English - Date: 2005-12-15 11:08:30
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