Let me also say that I am familiar with some of the similar behaviours that occur in many other religious communities including the Christian and Jewish, Sikh etc. I have long had an interest in the local (Australian) social and cultural implications of dress practices and their associated social codes in the Muslim community especially in schools. She lives in Cambridge, MA.This was a disappointing, and from my view, self-defeating book. She is the author of Women and Gender in Islam and A Border Passage: From Cairo to America-A Woman’s Journey.
Thomas Professor of Divinity at Harvard Divinity School. Richly insightful, intricately drawn, and passionately argued, this absorbing story of the veil’s resurgence, from Egypt through Saudi Arabia and into the West, suggests a dramatically new portrait of contemporary Islam. Ahmed’s surprising conclusions represent a near reversal of her thinking on this topic. It is often Islamists, even more than secular Muslims, who are at the forefront of such contemporary activist struggles as civil rights and women’s rights. Ahmed observed that Islamism, with its commitments to activism in the service of the poor and in pursuit of social justice, is the strain of Islam most easily and naturally merging with western democracies’ own tradition of activism in the cause of justice and social change. What she discovered, however, in the stories of British colonial officials, young Muslim feminists, Arab nationalists, pious Islamic daughters, American Muslim immigrants, violent jihadists, and peaceful Islamic activists, confounded her expectations. When she began her study, Ahmed assumed that the veil’s return indicated a backward step for Muslim women worldwide. Why, Ahmed asks, did this change take root so swiftly, and what does this shift mean for women, Islam, and the West? Today, however, the majority of Muslim women throughout the Islamic world again wear the veil.
To them, these coverings seemed irrelevant to both modern life and Islamic piety. In Cairo in the 1940s, Leila Ahmed was raised by a generation of women who never dressed in the veils and headscarves their mothers and grandmothers had worn. A Quiet Revolution: The Veil’s Resurgence, from the Middle East to America
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