Islam or progress of the nation?: an assessment of the aurat issue in Malay newspapers and magazines in the 1930s
Western media often perceive Islam as a misogynistic religion which hampers the progress of a nation. One related issue is “aurat” which is considered as a means to denigrate women in the society. In pre-Independent Malaya debates raged around the contested perceptions and interpretations of aurat...
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School of Social, Development and Environmental Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
2016
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| Online Access: | http://journalarticle.ukm.my/10310/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/10310/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/10310/1/5x.geografia-siupsi-mac16-Nazirah-edam.pdf |