Writing the feminine : women in Arab sources / edited by Manuela Marín and Randi Deguilhem.

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Other Authors: Marín, Manuela, Deguilhem, Randi
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, c2002.
Series:Islamic Mediterranean ; v. 1
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Table of Contents:
  • Click of needles: polygamy as an issue in Arabic popular epic / Remke Kruk
  • Women in medieval classical Arab poetry / Teresa Garulo
  • Andalusi proverbs on women / Nadia Lachiri
  • Palestinian autobiographies: a source for women's history? / Susanne Enderwitz
  • Women's access to public space according to al-Muḥallā bi-l-Āthār / Camilla Adang
  • Juridicial sources for the study of women: limitations of the female's capacity to act according to Mālikī law / Cristina de la Puente
  • Abandoned wives and their possibilities for divorce in al-Andalus: the evidence of the Wathāʼiq works / Amalia Zomeño
  • Women's history: a study of al-Tanūkhī / Nadia Mari El-Cheikh
  • Women in Andalusi biographical sources / María Luisa Ávila
  • Borrowed space: Andalusi and Maghribi women in chronicles / María Jesús Viguera Molíns
  • Women as prophets in Islam / Maribel Fierro
  • Images of Lālla ʻAwīsh: a holy woman from Marrakech / Mariëtte van Beek
  • Between symbol and reality: the image of women in twentieth century Arab art / Silvia Naef.