Women in Islam and the Middle East : a reader

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Women in Islam and the Middle East : a reader

edited by Ruth Roded

I.B. Tauris, 1999

  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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ISBN 9781860643088

Description

This text collects extracts concerning women in Islam from sources dating from the early Islamic period until today. The readings cover various aspects of women's experience: legal, domestic, political, religious and cultural, and are accompanied by introductions that explain the background.
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: pbk ISBN 9781860643095

Description

This text collects extracts concerning women in Islam from sources dating from the early Islamic period until today. The readings cover various aspects of women's experience: legal, domestic, political, religious and cultural, and are accompanied by introductions that explain the background.

Table of Contents

  • Part 1 The foundations of Islam: the Quran - differing interpretation of the Divine Word
  • the biography of the Prophet - women in battle
  • saying of the Prophet - selective quotation
  • Shi'i martyrology - the death of Fatima, daughter of the Prophet. Part 2 Early Islamic history: historical biographies - a royal woman of the Umayyad dynasty
  • chronicles - mother of Abbasid Caliphs. Part 3 Women as sources, actors and subjects of Islamic law: an early legal compendium - purity, legal competence and property ownership
  • the evidence of women, equality in marriage - a legal guide
  • theory of government -must viziers and judges be men? Part 4 Women's roles in medieval society: rules for kings regarding their wives - dangerous precedents
  • Sufi hagiography - devout women
  • medieval learned women
  • women in court - economic transactions
  • property ownership, philanthropy and management - endowment documents
  • Islamic views on sexuality
  • folk tales - Juha and his wife, Aisha and her husband. Part 5 20th century vicissitudes: historical statistics on education
  • out of the harem -women's autobiographies
  • an early public lecture on women's liberation
  • the feminist movement
  • the story of a contemporary woman mystic
  • neo-Islamic responses - Fatima empowered, a covenant for Islamic resistance
  • modern poetry - a daughter of the Galilee challenges men.

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