Women and Gender in Islam: Historical Roots of a Modern Debate

Leila Ahmed

Published by Yale University Press 2021

Women and Gender in Islam

Historical Roots of a Modern Debate

Leila Ahmed
Preface by: Kecia Ali

In the series Veritas Paperbacks

https://doi.org/10.12987/9780300258172

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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

Author / Editor information

Leila Ahmed is Victor S. Thomas Professor of Divinity at Harvard Divinity School. Her most recent book, A Quiet Revolution: The Veil’s Resurgence, from the Middle East to America, won the Grawemeyer Award in Religion for 2012. Kecia Ali is a professor of religion at Boston University.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Foreword Kecia Ali Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xv
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
PART 1 The Pre-Islamic Middle East
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Chapter 2 The Mediterranean Middle East Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	25
PART 2 Founding Discourses
Chapter 3 Women and the Rise of Islam Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	41
Chapter 4 The Transitional Age Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	64
Chapter 5 Elaboration of the Founding Discourses Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	79
Chapter 6 Medieval Islam Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	102
PART 3 New Discourses
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Chapter 9 The First Feminists Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
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Chapter 11 The Struggle for the Future Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	208
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Language: English
Publisher: Yale University Press
Pages
- Main content: 352

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Published: March 22, 2021
ISBN: 9780300258172