Beyond the exotic : women's histories in Islamic societies

Weitere Verfasser: Sonbol, Amira El Azhary
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Cairo : American University in Cairo Press, 2006.
Ausgabe: 1st ed.
Umfang/Format: xxxviii, 522 p. ; 23 cm.
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Online Zugang: Table of contents
Inhaltsangabe:
  • 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 / Selcuk Aksin 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.