Change and Contunty in an Islamic Community:The Case of Muslim Women Statuses at Kamissie and its surrounding
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2002-02
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
When studies among the Muslim societies were being done, it is often thought that
Islam as a religion at a higher degree dictates the women’s status and by the same
implication affects it to the worst.
But this has never been a case among Muslim women at kamissie where women
stay in public because of the changes taking place around them. Their exposure to
the public does not leave them for stigmatization rather the religion itself is
interpreted as to enable them to justify both women and men positions in their
societies
This thesis therefore,tries to show the variability that exists in women’s role and
social positions in a changing Islamic community at Kamissie. The thesis claims that
the variability in women’s role and social positions is not only to be a function of
geographical and environmental factors but also a function of the historical in terms
of social, economic and political development. The thesis also claims that Muslim
women in Kamissie not only differ from other women in Muslim societies, but they
also differ among themselves due to their access to different levels of human and
material resources
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Social Anthropology