"The Aga Khan Award for Architecture, the ninth award cycle"--Cover.

Formerly CIP.

Based on the author's thesis (Stanford University, 1998).

Translation of: Der Islam und das Problem der kulturellen Bewältigung sozialen Wandels.
"This translation has been revised and updated from the German original"--T.p. verso.

Includes indexes.

"Pathways of Women's Empowerment."

1. Growing up in Gilgit: exploring the nature of girlhood in northern Pakistan / Sarah J. Halverson -- 2. (Re)Defining public spaces through developmental education for Afghan women / Naheed Gina Aaftaab -- 3. A space of her own: women, work, and desire in an Afghan nomad community / Diana K. Davis -- 4. Changing identities and changing spaces in village landscapes of settled pastoralists in eastern Morocco/ Susanne H. Steinmann -- 5. Transnational Islam: Indonesian migrant domestic workers in Saudi Arabia / Rachel Silvey -- 6. Moral geographies and women's freedom: rethinking freedom discourse in the Moroccan context / Amy Freeman -- Negotiating spaces of the home, the education system and the labor market: the case of young, working-class, British-Pakistani Muslim women / Robina Mohammad -- Islamism, democracy and the political production of the headscarf issue in Turkey / Anna Secor -- Social transformation and Islamic reinterpretation in northern Somalia: the women's mosque in Gabiley / Abdi Ismail Samatar -- Gendered space in the Lebanese women tobacco workers' strike of 1970 / Malek Abisaab -- Writing place and gender in novels by Tunisian women writers / Leila Ayari and Marc Brosseau -- The visual representation of Muslim/Arab women in the daily newspapers in the United States / Ghazi-Walid Falah.

"Translated from the Dutch "Islamitische geometrische patronen zelf ontwerpen en maken" by George Hall, [2006]"--Colophon.
With over 290 illustrations.

Papers chiefly presented at a conference titled "Religion, culture, and women's human rights in the Muslim world," held Sept. 9-10, 1994 at the American University in Washington, D.C., and sponsored by Sisterhood Is Global Institute.