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Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures
Women Living Under Muslim Laws - WLUML
http://www.wluml.org/node/7107
The EWIC Scholars’ Database is an invaluable listing of scholars
from all over the world and from all disciplines whose work focuses on women,
gender, and Islamic cultures. Based on the authors’ database for the Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic
Cultures, this free online publication is a fully searchable directory of
connecting scholars, students, policymakers, and activists with each other and
with NGOs, governmental agencies, research foundations, publishers, members of
the media, and potential employers seeking researchers whose work specifically
covers issues on women and gender related to Islamic cultures. The online
database, funded by a grant from the International Development
Research Center (Ottawa),
is published athttp://sjoseph.ucdavis.edu/ewic.
The Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic
Cultures is a 6-volume,
2,000,000-word, state-of-the-art compendium offering 1,246 articles by 907
authors from all disciplines, covering the full span of topics for which we
could find research on women and Islamic cultures all over the world. In
addition to the complete print edition, EWIC Online publishes two online
supplements on Brill Online per year, totaling 200,000 words, and
adding 50-60 original scholarly articles annually to the already extensive
index of articles on women and Islamic cultures. The print edition was led by
Suad Joseph, General Editor; and Associate Editors Afsaneh Najmabadi, Julie
Peteet, Seteney Shami, Jacqueline Siapno, and Jane Smith; and Assistant Editor
Alice Horner). The EWIC Online Editorial team includes Suad Joseph,
General Editor; and Associate Editors Hoda Elsadda, Therese Saliba, Elora
Shehabuddin, and Virginia Hooker.