Women in Islam - Unit 5
Because it violates Islamic law
Why did Bourguiba ban the headscarf once his country earned its independence from France
Elijah Muhammad, Malcolm X, W. Deen Mohammed, and Louis Farrakhan
According to the author, "the literature on African American Muslims is focused almost entirely on the history of the Islamic religious groups led by four men." Who are these men
A,B, and C
According to the author, what do Americans know
Were among the first leaders of the NOI
African American women...
True
African Americans are the largest group of nonimmigrant Muslims in the US
Durel: There is no Tunisian identity Bourguiba: Tunisian identity is defined by Islam, the veil, and territory
Durel and Bourguiba argued about identity during colonial times in Tunisia. Select the options that define their positions in this debate
Christianity
Elijah Muhammad argues that ______ oppressed and impeded the religious, cultural, and moral advancement of African American people
False
English women's clothing was considered oppressive by some Turkish women
Roots, history, personality, culture, civilization
For Muslim women, Islamic identity is about ...
As a uniform, Islamic dress can be a source of authority
How can Islamic dress be seen as a matter of authority
All of the above
How can Islamic dress be seen as a matter of respect
True
Iran demanded that the Turkish government life the ban on women wearing headscarves because it violated Islamic law
Tunisia's fight for independence...
It was suggested that women are used to either construct or deconstruct national identity. What was the specific example that was mentioned
False
Like the rest of the Muslims in America, African Americans who are Muslims face issues of assimilation
Founded the Organization for Afro-American Unity
Malcolm X ...
False
Malcolm X founded the Nation of Islam
False
Most of the African American Muslims are Shi'ite Muslims
All of the above
Muslim women, for example, wear Islamic dress because, for them, it could be a matter of ...
True
Some women in the Middle East would say that God decides their wardrobes for them
False
Some women in the Middle East would say that the men or husbands decide their wardrobes for them
True
The French president, Sarkozy, equated wearing headscarf to genital mutilation
Integration but not assimilation
The Turkish prime minister, speaking in Germany, supported ...
Brought protesters to the streets Elicited reactions from Turkey's neighbors
The lifting of the ban on headscarves in Turkey ...
The West knows that Muslim women are oppressed and that Muslim people are ignorant because these claims are manufactured in Western culture by the same men who have also littered the culture with "facts" about Western women and how inferior and irrational they are
The author argues that ...
True
The author cites her personal reaction to the characterization of women under Islam before and after living in the US. Her experience supports the idea that one's position regarding social issues depends on one's set of circumstances
All of the above
The author claims that "just as American 'know,' that Arabs are backward, they know also with the same flawless certainty that Muslim women are terribly oppressed and degraded." How do they know this
Feminists
The author contends that, although Western ______ have succeeded in rejecting their culture's myths about (Western) women and their innate inferiority and irrationality, they continue to subscribe to and perpetuate those myths about Muslims, including Muslim women
Because for nearly a thousand years, the Western world and the Muslim world have been intermittently at war
The author contents that "for centuries, the Western world has been systmatically falsifying and villifying the Muslim world--and for centuries they did indeed have a powerful motive for doing so." What was the motive
All of the above
The class discussion of why we wear what we wear led to what conclusion(s)
The NOI
The development of the Black Nationalism movement parallels the development and the sustenance of _________
Was in use among all the peoples of the area, from the Greeks to the Pesians
The veil, which is associated with Muslim women's oppression, ...
False
There are only limited references on record in the body of orthodox Muslim literature supporting the notion that women are animals or have no souls
The apologist framework and the political uses of Islam (hegemonic Islam)
What are the two feminist approaches to studying women in Islam discussed in this article
Awareness of male oppression Female independence of mind
What did the female homosocial world foster
Westerners are also restricted on wardrobe choices, because freedom of choice in a Eurocentric style means there is a certain appearance to maintain
What is stated about the relationship between freedom and clothing
Western action
What is the reason for conflict in the Middle East
A religion, a blick nationalism movement
What was the Nation of Islam (NOI)
The ban was intended to safeguard secularism
What was the purpose or cause of the ban on headscarves in Turkey's public institutions
Apparel is how types of societies become known
What would Franz Fanon say about apparel in relation to society
Territory, people, leadership
Which of the following are necessary to create a nation
