Submitting to God: Women and Islam in Urban Malaysia

by Sylva Frisk

In recent decades, Malaysia has been profoundly changed both by forces of globalization, modernization, and industrialization and by a strong Islamization process. Some would argue that the situation of Malay women has worsened, but such a conclusion is challenged by this study of the everyday religious practice of pious women within Kuala Lumpur's affluent Malay middle class. Here, women play an active part in the Islamization process, not only...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295989254
• ISBN13: 9780295989259
• Release Date: August 2009
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"