Jamaat-i-Islami in Bangladesh: Women, democracy and the transformation of Islamist politics

Modern Asian Studies

Volumn 42, Issue 2-3, 2008, Pages 577-603

  Shehabuddin, Elora ^a  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEMOCRACY; ISLAMISM; POLITICAL CHANGE; WOMENS STATUS;

ASIA; BANGLADESH; EURASIA; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 40949103999     PISSN: 0026749X     EISSN: 14698099     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0026749X07003204     Document Type: Article

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