Just a little pet gripe of mine. Depending on individuals, and the naming system they may have adopted, it may be inappropriate to use the last in a string of names as a stand-in for 'last name', 'family name' or 'surname'.
Thus, in the case of Asghar Ali Engineer, he would be referred to as Asghar Ali, and cited as such, not as "Engineer". Don't know how Leila Ahmed would like to be referred to, but Ahmed is not a 'family name' and is a male name, her father's name. To then refer to her as Ahmed...
A tiny little measure of how the dominance of 'the West' forces everyone into an academic naming convention that does violence to their own names and cultures. No, I have no hope that this is about to change, nor is it especially shattering.
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At 7:13 am -0700 25/5/04, Michael Pugliese wrote:
>http://www.iifhr.com/womens%20website/books_muslimwmn.html
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>Annotated Bibliography
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>Books - Muslim Women, Islam and Feminism