ABSTRACT
To conclude, I would like to point to a number of interconnected issues and, thus, to a theoretical frame of reference.
It can be generally assumed that in Islamic societies, too, the genderbased division of labour and a symbolically conveyed gender duality determine social structures and everyday life as well as ways of thinking and of understanding things. In the development and the legitimisation of both the division of labour and gender duality, patterns of traditional social relationships, Western influences and religious orientations are closely interwoven.
