Abstract
This study is of five Muslim widowed women from the Arabic city of “Tabula” (a fictitious place for ethical reasons) from the north of Israel, out of a desire that they would expose their personal experiences (Spradley, 1979) [1]. It deals with women’s personal status, the widows’ difficulties, and the conflicts between the Arab Muslim traditional society and modernity. The Arab society is a traditional, collective, patriarchal and religious society. The women’s status is considered inferior to that of the men’s and their main role is conceived as raising children and taking care of the house. Following are the stories of Muslim women who became civilian widows by the ages 30 to 40. The study examines the way widows coped with their situation in a time in which the society underwent great changes, moving from a traditional society to a more modern one. By dealing with this situations: 1) The personal changes; 2) The main difficulty of being lonely; 3) The return to religion; 4) Coping with the loss of the husband; 5) The women’ expectations out of the Arab society.
Highlights
This study is of five Muslim widowed women from the Arabic city of “Tabula” from the north of Israel, out of a desire that they would expose their personal experiences (Spradley, 1979) [1]
The study examines the way widows coped with their situation in a time in which the society underwent great changes, moving from a traditional society to a more modern one
The interviews were conducted with five Muslim widowed women from the Arabic city of “Tabula” from the north of Israel, out of a desire that they would expose their personal experiences (Spradley, 1979) [1]
Summary
This study is done by the qualitative method of “case study”, which is based on up-close, in-depth, and detailed examination of a phenomenon (Behrendt, 2017) [15]; Stake, 2005) [16]. By the use of the “holistic method”, (Abuhab, 2013) [17] the researchers aims to reveal, to learn and understand the inner world of “subjects” from their point of view (Toval–Mashih, 2013) [18], Denzin & Lincoln, 2000) [19] According to this approach, certain behavior is originated by various factors: definition, beliefs, values and ideologies of the “subjects” (Pelto & Pelto, 1978) [20]. Tzabar (1995) [32] argues that this process lacks of shortcuts, in which, the researcher is looking within the obvious content for important and repeated motives The researcher phrase those categories, select the statements and place the pieces together (Shkedi 2010 [33]; Charmaz, 2005 [34]; Perakyla, 2005 [35]; Shanthi, 2017) [36]. Shkedi (2003) [37] adds that in the course of the analysis of data we associate words and phrases into categories that become meaningful, mainly in relation to other categories
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