Unveiling Traditions by Anouar Majid

Author:Anouar Majid [Majid, Anouar]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ebook, book
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2000-11-28T18:30:00+00:00

Amin’s book then marks the entry of the colonial narrative of women and Islam—in which the veil and the treatment of women epitomized Islamic inferiority—into mainstream Arabic discourse. And the opposition it generated similarly marks the emergence of an Arabic narrative developed in resistance to the colonial narrative. The veil came to symbolize in the resistance narrative, not the inferiority of the culture and the need to cast aside its customs in favor of those of the West, but, on the contrary, the dignity and validity of all native customs coming under attack—the customs relating to women—and the need to tenaciously affirm them as a means of resistance to Western domination.42

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