The best of you are those who are best to their women.” How did it get twisted? – A study of the bureaucratisation of Islam and women's development

• Main Author: Nurin Nazurah Saifudin
• Other Authors: Walid Jumblatt Bin Abdullah
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2022
• Subjects: Social sciences::Political science
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/157180
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Countries where Islam plays a prominent role in defining their political identity tend to produce poorer outcomes in women’s development. This phenomenon is observed where countries with bureaucratised Islam such as in Malaysia and Indonesia, tend to rank low on UN’s Gender Development and Inequalit...