Cracks in the 'mightiest fortress': Jamaat-e-Islami's changing discourse on women

Modern Asian Studies

Volumn 42, Issue 2-3, 2008, Pages 549-575

  Ahmad, Irfan ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEMINISM; GENDER ISSUE; ISLAMISM; WOMENS STATUS;

EID: 40949147021     PISSN: 0026749X     EISSN: 14698099     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0026749X07003101     Document Type: Article

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