ISBN:
9780192871251
Language:
English
Pages:
viii, 263 Seiten
,
24 cm
Series Statement:
Oxford studies in the Abrahamic religions
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Simonsohn, Uriel I., 1971 - Female power and religious change in the medieval Near East
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Simonsohn, Uriel I., 1971 - Female Power and Religious Change in the Medieval near East
DDC:
305.4869709394
Keywords:
Women Religious aspects
;
Islam
;
Islam History To 1500
;
Women Social conditions
;
Women Religious aspects
;
Islam
;
Women History To 500
;
Naher Osten
;
Islam
;
Frau
;
Geschichte 500-1500
Abstract:
"This book engages with two levels of scholarly discussion that are all too often treated separately, namely the Islamization of the Near East and the place of women in pre-modern Near Eastern societies. In what follows, I shall argue that these two lines of inquiry can, and should, be read in an integrative manner. Put differently, an adequate assessment of historical themes, such as conversion to Islam, Islamization, religious violence, and the regulation of Muslim - non-Muslim ties must attend to the relatively hidden, yet highly meaningful, female side of things. This book is not about the history of women in Muslim-dominated lands, but about the history of Islam from the perspective of female social agents. Women, I argue, irrespective of their religious affiliation, possessed crucial means for affecting or hindering religious changes, not only in the form of religious conversion, but also in the adoption of practices and the delineation of communal boundaries. A focus on the role and significance of female power in moments of religious change within family households offers a historical angle that is relatively absent from modern scholarship. Rather than locating signs of female autonomy or authority in the political, intellectual, religious, or economic spheres, the present endeavor is concerned with women's little recorded, yet highly significant, role due to their kinship ties"--
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