The email below was sent to a list that calls itself “Islam Female Leadership.” It calls for contributions from “scholars” (i.e., politically correct dhimmi pseudo-academics) to the Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Women of Oxford Islamic Studies.
The list below of “topics requiring scholarship” is drastically incomplete, don’t you think? Doesn’t the Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Women need contributions about honor killing (not just “honor”), female genital mutilation, divinely-sanctioned wife-beating, child marriage, talaq divorce, the devaluing of women’s testimony, the inequality of women’s inheritance rights, and all the other injustices that women must endure under Islamic law?
If you have an idea for a paper, write in (politely and calmly) to Anne Whittaker, asking her if the Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Women is going to cover these issues revolving around the institutionalized oppression of women in Islam, and if not, why not?
Subject: contributing to the Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Women
From: Hilary Kalmbach
Date: Fri, July 27, 2012 3:34 pm
To: ISLAM-FEMALE-LEADERSHIP@JISCMAIL.AC.UKDear list members,
Please see the message below about the possibility of contributing to the Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Women. If you are interested in contributing, please get in touch directly with Anne.Whittaker@oup.com.
Best wishes,
Hilary
Call for Submissions from Oxford University Press
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Women, one in a series of five reference works on Islamic studies, will be published in 2013 as a part of Oxford’s award-winning reference program, which includes The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World and Oxford Islamic Studies Online.
The Encyclopedia is currently seeking submissions from 500 to 4,000 words. Scholars worldwide who are interested in contributing to this major work of scholarship are encouraged to contact Anne.Whittaker@oup.com.
Topics requiring scholarship include:
* Medicine: Contemporary Practice
* Barakah
* Fitnah
* Taliban
* Honor
* Bazaar
* Tabaqat
* Education: Women’s Religious Education
* Gender Construction: Contemporary Practices
* Aga Khan Foundation
* Financial Institutions
* International League of Muslim Women
* Relics
* Bahrain
* Cinema: North African Women’s Contributions
* Da’wah, Women’s Activities in
* Women’s Philanthropy, Contemporary
* Women’s Rights
* Algeria
* Popular Religion: Europe and the Americas
* Fatwa
* Social Reform and Women: Social Reform in Southeast Asia
* Cottage Industries and Handicrafts
* Human Rights
* Warriors, Contemporary WomenAnne Whittaker
Development Editor
Oxford University Press