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Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures Online

Editor:
Suad Joseph
The Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures (EWIC) is an interdisciplinary, trans-historical, and global project embracing women and Islamic cultures in every region where there have been significant Muslim populations. It aims to cover every topic for which there is significant research, examining these regions from the period just before the rise of Islam to the present. A unique collaboration of over 1000 scholars from around the world, the Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures crosses history, geographic borders and disciplines to create a ground-breaking reference work reflecting the very latest research on gender studies and the Islamic world. No other reference work offers this scale of contributions or depth and breadth of coverage.

The Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures Online covers all volumes of the print edition, covering the following subjects:
- Methodologies, Paradigms and Sources (volume 1)
- Family, Law and Politics (volume 2)
- Family, Body, Sexuality and Health (volume 3)
- Economics, Education, Mobility and Space (volume 4)
- Practices, Interpretations and Representations (volume 5)
- plus the Supplement and Index Volume

Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures Online is an essential reference work for students and researchers in the fields of gender studies, Middle Eastern and Islamic studies, as well as scholars of religion, history, politics, anthropology, geography and related disciplines.

Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures Online is also available in print, visit EWIC and EWI2 for more information.

Features and Benefits
- The only reference work of its kind
- Contributions from over 1,000 scholars in the field
- More than 1,600 thematic, regional and/or disciplinary entries
- Up-to-date research and bibliographies make it indispensable for all levels of users
- Updated once a year with new articles, images and video's
- Accessible style for a wider audience
Online Publication Date:
10 Nov 2010
ISSN:
1872-5309
ISBN:
978-90-04-18230
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Prelims to Volume 1 to 5
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Volume 1: Methodologies, Paradigms and Sources for Studying Women and Islamic Cultures; Thematic Entries
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Volume 1: Methodologies, Paradigms and Sources for Studying Women and Islamic Cultures; Disciplinary Entries
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Volume 1: Women and Islamic Cultures: A Bibliography of Books and Articles in European Languages since 1993
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Volume 2: Family, Law and Politics
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Volume 3: Family, Body, Sexuality and Health
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Volume 4: Economics, Education, Mobility, and Space
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Volume 5: Practices, Interpretations and Representations
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Supplement I
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Supplement II
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Supplement III
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Supplement IV
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Supplement V
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Supplement VI
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Supplement VII
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Tenth Anniversary Edition
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Supplement X
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Supplement XI
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Supplement XII
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Supplement XIII
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Supplement XIV
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Supplement XV
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Supplement XVI
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Supplement XVII
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Supplement XVIII
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Supplement XIX
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Supplement XX
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Supplement XXI
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Supplement XXII
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Supplement XXIII
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Supplement XXIV
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Supplement XXV
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Print EWIC Volumes I–VI were published between 2003–2007. EWIC Online launched in 2010. All articles from Print EWIC are published in EWIC Online. Articles from Print EWIC indicate the volume in which they were originally published with the label “Volume X”. The date of publication “first published online” for all articles in EWIC Online, however, is the date of upload to EWIC Online. For the date of original publication of Print EWIC articles, kindly refer to the publication date of each volume, found on https://sjoseph.ucdavis.edu/encyclopedia-women-and-islamic-cultures or https://brill.com/display/serial/EWIC.

Title:
Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures Online
Editor:
Suad Joseph
Source Editors:
Suad Joseph
Publisher:
Brill
Publication Date:
10 Nov 2010
ISBN:
978-90-04-18230
Subjects:
General, Middle East and Islamic Studies

EWIC Online Editorial Board


General Editor

Suad Joseph, Ph.D., is Distinguished Research Professor, University of California, Davis. Joseph founded the Middle East Research Group in Anthropology, which became the Middle East Section of the American Anthropological Association; the Association for Middle East Women's Studies; the Arab Families Working Group; UCDAR, a six-university consortium; and the Middle East/South Asia Studies Program at UC Davis. She co-founded the Arab American Studies Association, the Association for Middle East Anthropology; the Women and Gender Studies Program, and the Feminist Research Institute at UC Davis. She was the president of the Middle East Studies Association. She was awarded the UC Davis Prize for Undergraduate Teaching and Research; lifetime achievement awards by the Association for Middle East Women's Studies and the Middle East Section of the American Anthropological Association; and the Jere Bacharach Service Award from the Middle East Studies Association. She has edited or co-edited over a dozen books and published over 100 articles.


Associate Editors: Associate Editors work closely with the General Editor (Suad Joseph) to solicit and edit articles for EWIC and to develop approaches and frameworks for EWIC volumes or supplements.

Nurhaizatul Jamil, is an Assistant Professor in Global South Studies at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn. Her current research foregrounds minoritized Muslims’ engagements with social media and popular culture, and their imbrications with transnational circuits of Islamic education and consumption. Her next research project examines the entanglements among modesty, fashion, and sustainability within Muslim communities. Her work has been funded by the following institutions/granting agencies: Harvard Divinity School (Women's Studies in Religion Program); ACLS/Henry Luce Foundation; Wenner-Gren Foundation (dissertation & post-PhD); Spencer Foundation/National Academy of Education (Dissertation completion); Social Science Research Council (SSRC, declined). She is an Associate Editor (East and Southeast Asia) of the Encyclopedia of Women in Islamic Cultures, and a trainer for the Muslim Women in the Media program (ACLS/Henry Luce).

Jeanette S. Jouili, is associate professor of Religion at Syracuse University. Her research focuses on Muslim communities in contemporary Europe where she has conducted ethnographic fieldwork for two decades. Her work examines the intersections between contemporary expressions of Islamic practice and secular governance, especially in a political context defined by the Global War on Terror. Furthermore, her broader research and teaching interests include anthropology of religion, ethics, religious pluralism and secularism, popular culture, race, gender. She has published articles in various peer-reviewed journals and is the author of Pious Practice and Secular Constraints: Women in the Islamic Revival in Europe (Stanford, 2015) and co-editor of the volume “Embodying Black Religion in Africa and its Diasporas: Memory, Movement and Belonging through the Body,” (Duke 2021). Currently, she is working on her second book manuscript: Islam on Stage: British Muslim Culture in the Age of Counterterrorism.

Hafsa Kanjwal, is an associate professor of South Asian History in the Department of History at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania, where she teaches courses on the history of the modern world, South Asian history, and Islam in the Modern World. As a historian of modern Kashmir, she is the author of Colonizing Kashmir: State-building Under Indian Occupation (Stanford University Press, 2023), which examines how the Indian and Kashmir governments utilized state-building to entrench India’s colonial occupation of Kashmir in the aftermath of Partition. Colonizing Kashmir historicizes India’s occupation of Kashmir through processes of emotional integration, development, normalization, and empowerment to highlight the new hierarchies of power and domination that emerged in the aftermath of decolonization. Her second book project examines questions of Muslim political sovereignty and the secular, liberal international order in the context of 20th and 21st century Kashmir. Hafsa has written and spoken on her research for a variety of news outlets including The Washington Post, Al Jazeera English, and the . She received her Ph.D. in History and Women’s Studies from the University of Michigan.

Charlotte Karem Albrecht, is an Associate Professor of American Culture and Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Michigan – Ann Arbor, where she is also core faculty in the Arab and Muslim American Studies program and affiliated faculty for the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies and the Race, Law, and History Program. Her research interests include Arab American and Arab diasporic histories, histories of gender and sexuality, relational ethnic studies, feminist theory, queer of color critique, and interdisciplinary historicist methods. Her first book, Possible Histories: Arab Americans and the Queer Ecology of Peddling, was published open access with University of California Press and was awarded an honorable mention in the Evelyn Shakir non-fiction category of the 2024 Arab American Book Awards. She is an Organization of American Historians Distinguished Lecturer and the Associate Editor of the Americas for the Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures. She previously served as Board Chair for Mizna (a Southwest Asian and North African arts organization) and works closely with the Arab American National Museum in Dearborn, Michigan. Karem Albrecht holds a Ph.D. in Feminist Studies from the University of Minnesota, and her work has also been published in Arab Studies Quarterly, Gender & History, the Journal of American Ethnic History, and multiple edited collections.

Zeina Zaatari, Ph.D., is the Director of the Arab American Cultural Center at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). She is also adjunct faculty in Anthropology and Faculty Fellow in the Honors College at UIC. Her recent publications include two co-edited books: Routledge Handbook on Women of the Middle East co-edited with Suad Joseph (2023) and The Politics of Engaged Gender Research in the Arab Region: Feminist Fieldwork and Knowledge Production co-edited with Suad Joseph and Lena Meari (I.B.Tauris 2022). Among her other publications include: "Sarah Hegazy and the Struggle for Freedom," Middle East Report Online (2020), “Social Movements and Revolution” in A Companion to the Anthropology of the Middle East, edited by Soraya Altorki (2015, Wiley-Blackwell), and “Desirable Masculinity/Femininity and Nostalgia of the “Anti-Modernity”: Bab el-Hara Television Series as a Site of Production” in Sexuality and Culture (2014). She is a trainer and mentor for The Muslim Women in the Media Training Institute supporting journalism graduate students and junior journalists in better coverage and representation of Muslim women and their issues. Zeina was elected as the Member at-Large to serve on the board of the Association for Middle East Women's Studies for 2022-2024. She is a co-founder and elected board member of the Women Human Rights Defenders-MENA Coalition. For more info, please visit.

Guest Editors: Guest Editors serve for a specific supplement or volume. They work with the General Editor or an Associate Editor to solicit and edit articles for EWIC.

Supplement 14. Pauline Homsi Vinson, Ph.D., is adjunct professor of English at Diablo Valley College, California. Pauline's doctorate centered on English Renaissance drama and her current work focuses on gender, race, and representation in Arab American literature, cross-cultural portability, and cosmopolitanism. She has taught in the U.S., the Middle East, and Southeast Asia. Pauline is co-founder and former secretary of the Arab American Studies Association and 2016 chair and co-founder of the Global Arab and Arab American Literature forum at the MLA. She has published encyclopedia entries, book chapters, and refereed articles on Arab women's autobiographies and Arab American literature. Her current project explores the subversive potential of storytelling in Arab American re-configurations of the 1001 Nights.


International Advisory Board
  • Marilyn Booth, University of Oxford
  • Bahar Davary, University of San Diego
  • Rosa De Jorio, University of North Florida
  • Hoda Elsadda, Cairo University
  • Nadia Fadil, University of Leuven
  • Virginia Hooker, The Australian National University
  • Alice Horner, Independent Scholar
  • Amira Jarmakani, Georgia State
  • Afsaneh Najmabidi, Harvard University
  • Dana M. Olwan, Syracuse University
  • Shaheen Pasha, Penn State University
  • Julie Peteet, University of Louisville
  • Kathryn Robinson, The Australian National University
  • Therese Saliba, The Evergreen State College
  • Seteney Shami, Social Science Research Council
  • Elora Shehabuddin, University of California, Berkeley
  • Jacqueline Siapno, University of Melbourne
  • Jane I. Smith, Hartford Seminary

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    Video 1: Deniz Kandiyoti and Suad Joseph

    Video 2: Nilüfer Göle and Nadia Fadil

    Video 3: Amina Wadud and Saadia Yacoob

    Video 4: Martina Rieker with Suad Joseph

    Video 5: Seteney Shami with Suad Joseph

    Video 6: Judith Tucker with Zat Jamil

    Video 7: Asma Barlas with Jeanette Jouili

    Video 8: Hoda Elsadda with Zeina Zaatari

    Video 9: Zeina Zaatari with Omaima Abu Bakr

    Video 10: Iman Masmoudi, Hassanah El-Yacoubi, Faegheh Shirazi and Hafsa Lodi

    Video 1: Deniz Kandiyoti and Suad Joseph - 17th May 2022

     

    Video 2: Nilüfer Göle and Nadia Fadil - 10th September 2021

     

    Video 3: Amina Wadud and Saadia Yacoob - 13th July 2021

     

    Video 4: Martina Rieker with Suad Joseph - 23rd November 2022

     

    Video 5: Seteney Shami with Suad Joseph - 11th October 2022

     

    Video 6: Judith Tucker with Zat Jamil - 10th September 2021

     

    Video 7: Asma Barlas with Jeanette Jouili - 14th December 2022

     

    Video 8: Hoda Elsadda with Zeina Zaatari - 14th December 2024

     

    Video 9: Zeina Zaatari with Omaima Abu Bakr - 3 April 2025

     

    Video 10: Iman Masmoudi, Hassanah El-Yacoubi, Faegheh Shirazi and Hafsa Lodi - 3 April 2025