Title:Islam and Secular Modernity under Western Eyes:A Genealogy of a Constitutive Relationship
Author(s):BRACKE, Sarah; FADIL, NadiaDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:This paper considers the theoretical operations involved in sustaining secular modernity within the realm of social theory. It seeks to understand how the secular operates as an epistemological formation. We examine a set ...
Title:Islamic and Secular Feminisms: Two Discourses Mobilized for Gender Justice
Author(s):BAHI, RihamDate:2011-05-23Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:The role of women in Islam is invested with diverse meanings and discourses. The state, religious
authorities, traditional Islamists and reformist intellectuals all claim the right to define the role of
women in the ...
Title:Islamic Feminism and Reforming Muslim Family Laws
Author(s):AL-SHARMANI, MulkiDate:2011-01-01Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI RSCASAbstract:In this paper, I will engage with some of the recent literature that attempts to define, map out, analyze, categorize, and critique a growing body of academic scholarship that has emerged in the late 80s and early 90s and ...
Title:The Israel Defense Forces and the Al-Aqsa Intifada: When Tactical Virtuosity Meets Strategic Disappointment
Author(s):CATIGNANI, SergioDate:2008Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:The following paper analyzes the Israel Defense Forces’ (IDF) counter-insurgency strategy and campaign carried out against the Palestinian insurgency within the Occupied/Disputed Territories of the West Bank and Gaza Strip ...
Title:Italian monetary policy in the 1980s
Author(s):DE CECCO, MarcelloDate:1983Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI Working Papers