Women in Islam and the Middle East : a reader
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Women in Islam and the Middle East : a reader
I.B. Tauris, 1999
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Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto Universityグローバル専攻
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
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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
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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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