Beyond the exotic : women's histories in Islamic societies

Beyond the exotic : women's histories in Islamic societies / edited by Amira El-Azhary Sonbol.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Sonbol, Amira El Azhary
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2005.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Gender, culture, and politics in the Middle East
Subjects:
Muslim women > Historiography.
Women > Islamic countries > Historiography.
Muslim women > Social conditions.
Women > Islamic countries > Social conditions.
Online Access:Table of contents
Table of Contents:
  • History then, history now : the role of medieval Islamic religio-political sources in shaping the modern debate on gender / Denise A. Spellberg
  • The Qur'an and history / Barbara Freyer Stowasser
  • Muslim women : public authority, scriptures, and "Islamic law" / Haifaa Khalafallah
  • Gendered sources in ethnohistorical research : the study of emigration from a Lebanese village / Patricia Mihaly Nabti
  • Individualism and political modernity : devout Catholic women in Aleppo and Lebanon between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries / Bernard Heyberger
  • Women, patronage, and charity in Ottoman Istanbul / Fariba Zarinebaf
  • Consciousness of self / Randi Deguilhem
  • Sources for the study of slave women and concubines in Ottoman Egypt / Nelly Hanna
  • Thoughts on women and slavery in the Ottoman era and historical sources / Madeline Zilfi
  • Observations on the use of sharia court records as a source of social history / Ramadan al-Khowli
  • Mahkama records as a source for women's history / Fatima Zohra Guechi
  • And God knows best : the fatwa as a source for the history of gender in the Arab world / Judith E. Tucker
  • Gender violence in Ottoman law / Elyse Semerdjian
  • Mixed and other courts / Amira El-Azhary Sonbol
  • Islamic personal law in American courts / Richard Freeland
  • Learning gendered modernity / Lisa Pollard
  • The use of textbooks as a source of history for women / Mona Russell
  • Sources on the education of Ottoman women in the prime ministerial Ottoman archive for the period of reforms in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / Selçuk Aks̲in Somel
  • The history of the discourses on gender and Islamism in contemporary Egypt (1980-1990) / Mervat F. Hatem
  • Female patronage of Mamluk architecture in Cairo / Howayda al-Harithy
  • Islamic art as a source for the study of women in premodern societies / Sheila S. Blair
  • Discerning the hand-of-Fatima : an iconological investigation of the role of gender in religious art / Diane Apostolos-Cappadona
  • Oral traditions as a source for the study of Muslim women / Valerie J. Hoffman
  • Political science without clothes : the politics of dress, or, contesting the spatiality of the state in Egypt / Mamoun Fandy.

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