Women, Islam, and Abbasid Identity

Women and Islam

Islam, Women and Family Planning: A Primer

The events of September 11 have focused attention on just how bad things can be for women living under the rule of Islamic extremists. The Taliban’s inhumane treatment of women in Afghanistan has led many in the West to conclude that Islam itself defines a subordinate role for women that is incompatible with reproductive choice. In reality, however, Islamic thought is flexible on reproductive m...

Studying Oil, Islam, and Women as if Political Institutions Mattered

Authority , Identity and the Establishment ! of the People of God : Understanding the Political Challenge of Islam

~us writes Sayyid Qutb, the founding father • ~f the Islamic Brotherhood in Egypt, in a polemic essay! which levels at Christians the common Islamic accusation that they suffer from a 'hideous schizophrenia' encapsulated in the exhortation to 'render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's and to God the things that are God's.' Since its inception, Islam has presented unprecedented challenges to...

Islam Almasri_TOCSJ

Recently, a number of methods have been proposed to improve image retrieval accuracy by capturing context information. These methods try to compensate for the fact that a visually less similar image might be more relevant because it depicts the same object. We propose a new quick method for refining any pairwise distance metric, it works by iteratively discovering the object in the image from t...