Plunged into a world far removed from her own experience, she nonetheless encounters the same problemswith male-female power politics as she did in her marriage.
It cannot be denied that there are problems, for liberals and supporters of full female emancipation, with the application of Sharia, the body of laws deemed to derive from the Koran, in those countries where the judicial system is wholly or partly based on it.
Concurrently, religious reforms have helped pluralize the national interpretation of Islam, with a cadre of female preachers now empowered to weigh in on everything from marital problems to scientific inquiry.