ISBN:
1417520914
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1860646972
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1860646972
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9781417520916
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9781860646973
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xxvi, 278 Seiten)
Series Statement:
Islamic Mediterranean 1
DDC:
305.48/697
Keywords:
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies
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Arabisch
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Letterkunde
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Vrouwen
;
Aufsatzsammlung
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Frau
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Literatur
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Frau
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Geschichte
;
Literatur
;
Muslim women History
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Women in Islam
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Women (Islamic law)
;
Arabic literature History and criticism
;
Women in literature
;
Arabisch
;
Literatur
;
Frau
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Frau
;
Literatur
;
Arabisch
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-265) and index
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Click of needles: polygamy as an issue in Arabic popular epic - Remke Kruk -- - Women in medieval classical Arab poetry - Teresa Garulo -- - Andalusi proverbs on women - Nadia Lachiri -- - Palestinian autobiographies: a source for women's history? - Susanne Enderwitz -- - Women's access to public space according to al-Muḥallā bi-l-Āthār - Camilla Adang -- - Juridicial sources for the study of women: limitations of the female's capacity to act according to Mālikī law - Cristina de la Puente -- - Abandoned wives and their possibilities for divorce in al-Andalus: the evidence of the Wathāʼiq works - Amalia Zomeño -- - Women's history: a study of al-Tanūkhī - Nadia Mari El-Cheikh -- - Women in Andalusi biographical sources - María Luisa Ávila -- - A borrowed space: Andalusi and Maghribi women in chronicles - María Jesús Viguera Molíns -- - Women as prophets in Islam - Maribel Fierro -- - Images of Lālla ʻAwīsh: a holy woman from Marrakech - Mariëtte van Beek -- - Between symbol and reality: the image of women in twentieth century Arab art - Silvia Naef
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Based on original sources, this book questions the conventional wisdom that Mediterranean Muslim women are passive people subjected to the tyranny and misogyny of religion, society and male relatives. Encompassing everything from medieval love poetry to popular literary sources these studies bear witness to the fact that individual women of all social classes play pivotal roles in both the private domains of sociey and in the public realm
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