ISBN:
9780300258172
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (352 Seiten)
Edition:
[Online-Ausgabe]
Series Statement:
Veritas Paperbacks
DDC:
305.4/86971
Keywords:
Feminism
;
Muslim women Attitudes
;
Sexism History
;
Women Social conditions
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies
Abstract:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART 1 The Pre-Islamic Middle East -- Chapter 1 Mesopotamia -- Chapter 2 The Mediterranean Middle East -- PART 2 Founding Discourses -- Chapter 3 Women and the Rise of Islam -- Chapter 4 The Transitional Age -- Chapter 5 Elaboration of the Founding Discourses -- Chapter 6 Medieval Islam -- PART 3 New Discourses -- Chapter 7 Social and Intellectual Change -- Chapter 8 The Discourse of the Veil -- Chapter 9 The First Feminists -- Chapter 10 Divergent Voices -- Chapter 11 The Struggle for the Future -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index
Abstract:
A classic, pioneering account of the lives of women in Islamic history, republished for a new generation This pioneering study of the social and political lives of Muslim women has shaped a whole generation of scholarship. In it, Leila Ahmed explores the historical roots of contemporary debates, ambitiously surveying Islamic discourse on women from Arabia during the period in which Islam was founded to Iraq during the classical age to Egypt during the modern era. The book is now reissued as a Veritas paperback, with a new foreword by Kecia Ali situating the text in its scholarly context and explaining its enduring influence. "Ahmed's book is a serious and independent-minded analysis of its subject, the best-informed, most sympathetic and reliable one that exists today."-Edward W. Said "Destined to become a classic. . . . It gives [Muslim women] back our rightful place, at the center of our histories."-Rana Kabbani, The Guardian
Note:
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
DOI:
10.12987/9780300258172
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