Wahid Jahan, a Reformer's Wife and Partner in Muslim Women's Reform at Aligarh

Muslim Women Education and Empowerment in Rural Aligarh (A Case Study)

For the development of rural environment, education should be taken on priority as it is the most important factor. Education is the basis for creativity and foresightedness that triggers change; it helps in economic growth, quality of life and quality of human resource. Education takes us away from tradition backwardness, darkness, poverty, misery and overpopulation to enlighten, prosperity an...

Confronting Government After Welfare Reform: Moralists, Reformers, and Narratives of (Ir)responsibility at Administrative Fair Hearings

Almost 40 years ago, the Supreme Court, in the landmark case Goldberg v. Kelly (1970), provided welfare participants with a potentially potent tool for challenging the government welfare bureaucracy by requiring pre-termination hearings before welfare benefits were discontinued or reduced. In 1996, with the passage of the Personal Responsibility Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA), the...

Muslim Immigrant Men's and Women's Attitudes Towards Intimate Partner Violence

This study aims to study the attitudes towards Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) in a group of Muslim immigrants. To this end, six focus-groups were conducted involving 42 first-generation Muslim immigrants (21 males and 21 females) from Pakistan, Egypt and Morocco. Focus groups transcripts were then analyzed using the software ATLAS.ti. Irrespectively of nationality, couples replicate relational...

Legal Reform: Reviewing Human Rights in the Muslim World

Comparison of Mental Health in Fertile and Infertile Womens at Kowsar Infertility Clinic

Reproduction and fertility are one of the principles marital life. Actually it can be said that the most important thing after survival is continued generation. The aim of this research was to determine the effects of mental health in womens of fertile and infertile. This research was performed at kowsar infertility clinic in tehran city. The scale GHQ28 was used for this evaluate. This scale w...