Situating globalization : : views from Egypt / / Cynthia Nelson, Shahnaz Rouse, editors.

• Superior document: Globaler lokaler Islam
• TeilnehmendeR: Nelson, Cynthia,; Rouse, Shahnaz J.,
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld : : Transcript,, [2000]; ©2000
• Year of Publication: 2000
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Global, local Islam.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (362)

The range of perspectives and original materials dealt with by each author highlights the renewed urgency of the struggle for cultural autonomy and voice within the context of globalization. In other words, each paper explores how the various processes at both the local and global level intersect to create new discourses and debates round the »indigenization of knowledge.« If a new wind of cultural decolonization is blowing through the Arab Middle East, which is having profound impact on the lives of men and women, then we should expect a new scholarship to emerge in order to grasp and understand it. This book is a contribution in that direction.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter 1 Contents 5 Preface 7 Prologue 9 Globalization, Islam and the Indigenization of Knowledge 15 The Islamization of Knowledge between Particularism and Globalization: Malaysia and Egypt 53 Gendering Globalization: Alternative Languages of Modernity 97 Struggling and Surviving: The Trajectory of Sheikh Moubarak Abdu Fadl. A Historical Figure of the Egyptian Left 159 Al-Daght: Pressures of Modern Life in Cairo 203 Creating Bodies, Organizing Selves: Planning the Family in Egypt 231 Death of a Midwife 255 Problematizing Marriage: Minding My Manners in My Husband's Community 283 A Tale of Two Contracts: Towards a Situated Understanding of "Women Interests" in Egypt 301 "We Are Not Feminists!" Egyptian Women Activists on Feminism 337 The Contributors 359