Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures

WMF has carried out the translation into Arabic of Volume 1 of EWIC: Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures, published originally in English by E. J. Brill in 2003.

 

The Arabic translation is available free of charge online. 

 

The EWIC website describes the project as “a broad based, interdisciplinary, cross-cultural, transhistorical encyclopedia, focusing specifically on women and Islamic cultures, but also including non-Muslim women in cultures where Islam has had a significant presence.”

 

EWIC consists of the following six volumes: 1- Methodologies, Paradigms and Sources (2003); II- Family, Law and Politics (2005); III-Family, Body, Sexuality and Health (2006); IV- Economics, Education, Mobility, and Space (2007); V- Practices, Interpretations and Representations (forthcoming); VI- Supplement and Index (forthcoming).

The general editor of EWIC is Suad Joseph, and it was published by Brill Publishers in Leiden.

 

The idea of translating the Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures (EWIC) is an extension of EWIC itself, being a project conscious of the importance of knowledge production in the field of gender and women’s studies and Islamic cultures. WMF believes in the value and importance of translation, in terms of transferring and hence producing encyclopaedic knowledge about women and Islamic cultures in Arabic language.

 

 

Readers on Gender and the Disciplines

One of WMF’s most recent publishing projects is a series of Readers on Gender in the Humanities and Social Sciences. As most WMF members are academics, they attempt to incorporate gender as a tool of analysis in their teaching curricula. However, they are often faced with a dearth of scholarly material on gender theory and gender studies in Arabic. Thus the project of Readers on Gender and the Disciplines aims at providing Arab students and researchers with seminal articles on gender in the humanities and the social sciences.

 

Titles that are due to appear in this series are:

 

The Reader on Feminism and Religious Studies, ed. Omaima Abou-Bakr, trans. Randa Aboubakr

The Reader on Feminism and History, ed. Hoda Elsadda, trans. Abir Abbas

The Reader on Gender and Political Science, ed. Mervat Hatem, trans. Shohrat El-Alem

The Reader on Feminism and Literary Criticism, ed. and trans. Hala Kamal

The Reader on Feminism and Psychology, ed. Afaf Mahfouz, trans. Aida Seif El-Dawla

The Reader on Gender and Anthropology/Sociology, ed. Hania Sholkamy and trans. Seham Abdel-Salam