By TCN News
New Delhi: Muslim girls and women are similar in many aspects to girls and women of other communities. But they are different too. They have some specific issues and problems, which others do not have. One of the most important is religious identity of Muslim women. Due to this very identity they have special position within and outside the community. Journalist and researcher Nasiruddin Haider Khan plans to conduction a research focusing on Indian Muslim women and their struggle for identiy.
In the case of Muslim women in particular, there are many misconceptions and myths about Islam and women’s rights. These misconceptions exist both within and outside the Muslim community. Misconceptions within the community are clearly different from those held outside the community and have a different motivation. For example, misconceptions outside the community are at times used to fuel the politics of hatred. In contrast, within the community, they have been used as a tool to control poor Muslims and especially Muslim women.
Nasiruddin Haider Khan is senior journalist and long experience of working on gender issues. He has written extensively on women issues especially on Muslim women issues. He is recipient of many prestigious fellowships namely NFI Media fellowship, Panos South Asia Fellowship, HPI Felloship (formerly Mac Arthur Fund for Leadership).
Nasiruddin will try to trace the legacy of Indian Muslim women struggle for Identity and rights. Nasiruddin want to write a book and prepare an exhibition on the same subject. In the book, He will try to identify and write about men and women who have raised or fought for Indian Muslim women. This will be not only a historical sketch but it has present context too. He will also try to identify Indian Muslim women who are carrying this legacy at present.
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