International Conference on Women of the Islamic World, 19th and 20th Centuries

December 21-22, 2013, Tehran, Iran

Women's Association of History Researchers holds its fifth conference on the women of the Islamic world in the 19th and 20th centuries in order to study women's issues, and opportunities and obstructions faced by them in the course of history and in Islamic societies. This conference aims to study the issues and problems of women both theoretically and objectively.

Therefore, theoretical and methodological considerations used in women's studies and women's historiography in general, approaches applied to women's studies in Islamic societies in particular, fundamental and universal rights of women and gender in Islam will be among the issues addressed in this conference. Moreover, the substantial contribution of women to family life and to all other social affairs, their role in civil and national movements, the scientific and cultural activities of prominent Muslim women, and the status of the women of non-Moslem minorities in Islamic societies will be addressed by this conference to identify the position of the Islamic world in promoting women's movements both independently and by means of comparative evaluation of women's thoughts and their functions in Islamic societies. Women's Association of History Researchers invites herewith all scholars to assist the association in holding the mentioned conference by collaborating and participating actively.

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