TY - BOOK AU - Sharify-Funk,Meena TI - Encountering the transnational: women, Islam and the politics of interpretation SN - 9780754671237 (alk. paper) AV - HQ1170 .S4623 2008 PY - 2008/// CY - Aldershot, England, Burlington, VT PB - Ashgate KW - Muslim women KW - Women in Islam KW - Islam and civil society KW - Islamic modernism KW - Islam KW - 21st century N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-193) and index; Introduction -- Mixed messages and multiple agendas : the politics of women and Islam -- Trends and transformations in contemporary Islamic hermeneutics -- Identity and interpretation : dialogue and the negotiation of meaning -- The transnational and the politics of community -- Muslim society and state : the politics of public space -- Muslim woman as self/other : the politics of identity -- Conclusion: A space for connectivity and dynamism ER -