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A Quiet Revolution: The Veil's Resurgence, from the Middle East to America
Leila Ahmed
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| #213264 in Books | Yale University Press | 2012-06-05 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.50 x6.00 x1.25l,1.00 | File type: PDF | 360 pages | ||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Great if perhaps mistitled book|By Customer|As other reviewers have noted, veiling gets less attention in this book than might be surmised from the title. Ahmed began the research that led to this book as a study of veiling, but the final product is really a book about modern Islamic socio-political activism, which Ahmed calls "Islamism" in keeping with academic usage, and of||
"Ms. Ahmed gives us a fascinating portrait of the Muslim Brotherhood, especially of its 'unsung mother,' Zainab al-Ghazali."—Mira Sethi, Wall Street Journal
In Cairo in the 1940s, Leila Ahmed was raised by a generation of women who never dressed in the veils and headscarves their mothers and grandmothers had worn. To them, these coverings seemed irrelevant to both modern life and Islamic piety. Today, however, the majority of Muslim women throughout the Islamic world again wear the veil. Why, Ahmed asks, did this change take root so swiftly, and what does this shift mean for women, Islam, and the West?
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