Women and Islam in Bangladesh

TAJ UL-ISLAM HASHMI is Professor and Director, School of Liberal Arts and Science, Independent University, Bangladesh.

• Preface and Acknowledgements Introduction Women in Islam: A Reappraisal Mullas, Popular Islam and Misogyny Women as Victims of the Salish: Fatwas, Mullas and the Village Community NGOs and Empowerment of Women: Some Problematic Prognoses Militant Feminism, Islam and Patriarchy: Taslima Nasreen, Ulama and the Polity Conclusions Index

'Hashmi's work is one of the first expositions of the growing backlash against women and development and as such should be widely read.' - Janet Henshall Momsen, University of California, Davis