Islam and Muslim Women

The influence of the Western culture on the girls of Bangladesh and the Islamic outlook in context.

NAME: PHABLIHA NUSAIBA KHALID
ID: 123 0955 015
SECTION: 1
COURSE INSTRUCTOR: DR. A.Q.M.A. RAHMAN BHUIYAN, ASSISTANT PREOFESSOR, ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
NORTH SOUTH UNIVERSITY
SUBMITTED ON: 25TH APRIL 2013

Table Of Contents:

Acknowledgement-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------3
Abstract -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------4
Introduction---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------5
Research Questions----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------7
Hypothesis-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------8
Methodology--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------9
Presentation and Discussion of Research-----------------------------------------------------------------10 i) Culture of Bangladesh-------------------------------------------------------------------------10 ii) Influence of western culture in Bengali girls-----------------------------------------------12 iii) Women on the threshold of the 21st century-----------------------------------------------13 iv) The diversity of Muslim communities------------------------------------------------------14 v) Muslim women in the socio-political turmoil of the twentieth century----------------15 vi) Womens responses at the international level----------------------------------------------18 vii) Survey------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------22
Summary of findings--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------27

Acknowledgement

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