Practices, interpretations and representations

Author(s)

• Joseph, Suad
• Najmabadi, Afsaneh
• Horner, Alice

Bibliographic Information

Practices, interpretations and representations

general editor, Suad Joseph ; associate editors, Afsaneh Najmabadi ... [et al.] ; assistant editor, Alice Horner

（Encyclopedia of women & Islamic cultures, v. 5）

Brill, 2007

Note

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

Description and Table of Contents

Description

A unique collaboration of over 900 scholars from around the world, the Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures crosses history, geographic borders and disciplines to create a ground-breaking reference work reflecting the very latest research on gender studies and the Islamic world. No other reference work offers this scale of contributions or depth and breadth of coverage. Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures is set to become an essential reference work for students and researchers in the fields of gender studies, Middle Eastern and Islamic studies, as well as scholars of religion, history, politics, anthropology, geography and related disciplines. This encyclopedia consists of six volumes (including an Index volume), published from 2003 to 2007. The Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures is also available online. For more information see Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures Online.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Preface Suad Joseph Arts: Belly Dancers Arts: Composers Arts: Dance: Expression and Ritual Arts: Fiction and Fiction Writers Arts: Film Directors and Film Stars Arts: Performers and Performing Groups Arts: Poets and Poetry Arts: Remembrances and Narrations Arts: Storytellers and Raconteurs Arts: Sung Praise Poetry Arts: Theatre Arts: Visual Arts and Artists Arts: Women Journalists and Women's Press Arts: World Music Islam: Critiques of the Impact of the Emergence of Islam on Women Islam: Early Expansion and Women Islam: Islam and Modernities Islam: Jewish and Muslim Sources, Discourses, and Interactions Islam: Saints and Sacred Geographies Language: Use by Women Qur'an: Modern Interpretations Religious Practices: Ablution, Purification, Prayer, Fasting, and Piety Religious Practices: Conversion Religious Practices: Obedience and Disobedience in Islamic Discourses Religious Practices: Piety Religious Practices: Pilgrimage Religious Practices: Prophecy and Women Prophets Religious Practices: Religious Commemorations Religious Practices: Waqf Religious Practices: Zakat (Almsgiving) and Other Charitable Practices Representations: Afterlife Stories Representations: Creation Stories Representations: Dream Literature Representations: Erotic Literature Representations: Fiction, Modern Representations: Film Representations: Humorous Depictions Representations: Legends and Epics Representations: Legends, Epics, and Performance: West Africa Representations: Metaphors of the Female Body Representations: Music Representations: Muslim Women and Gender in the Colonial Imagination Representations: Poetry, Modern Representations: Poetry and Prose, Pre-modern Representations: Print, Broadcast, and Electronic Media Representations: Proverbs, Adages, and Riddles Representations: Qur'an Representations: Romance Fiction Representations: Sufi Literature Representations: Sufi Women, Early Period, Seventh-Tenth Centuries Representations: Theatre Representations: Visual Arts Representations: The Wiles of Women Literature Indices to Volume V Name Index Subject Index

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Details

• NCID: BA82354155
• ISBN:
  • 9789004128217
• Country Code: ne
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Leiden
• Pages/Volumes: xx, 594 p., [6] p. of plates
• Size: 28 cm
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA6538717X