Depictions of Muslim women reflect European societal shifts, not Muslim realities. [causal]

    Depictions of Muslim women reflect European societal shifts, not Muslim realities. [causal]
  

Kahf argues, is connected to developments in European societies rather than changing roles of actual Muslim women in their own societies in the same time periods.

QUESTION: This raises the interesting question of whether any literature accurately reflected actual Muslim women's lives, or whether European projection always dominated.
Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ Th…, loc. 505