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Entrepreneurial women in Egypt / Afaf Lutfi al-Sayyid Marsot -- Law and the desire for social control: an insight into the Hanafi concept of Kafa'a with reference to the Fatawa 'Alamgiri (1664-1672) / Mona Siddiqui -- Women, Islam and patriarchalism / Ghada Karmi -- Women in Islamic law / Raga' El-Nimr -- The political agendas and textual strategies of Levantine women writers / Elizabeth McKee -- Crimes of honour and the construction of gender in Arab societies / Lama Abu-Odeh.
Islam and feminism: an analysis of political strategies / Haleh Afshar -- Gender and the politics of religion in the Middle East / Maha Azzam -- The mythology of modernity: women and democracy in Lebanon / Jean Said Makdisi -- Gulf women and Islamic law / Munira Fakhro -- Some observations on women in Saudi Arabia / Mai Yamani -- Stretching the limits: a feminist reading of the Shariʻa in post-Khomeini Iran / Ziba Mir-Hosseini -- Statutory discrimination in Lebanon: a lawyer's view / Souad Mokbel-Wensley -- Islamic family legislation: the authoritarian discourse of silence / Najla Hamadeh -- The women's convention in the Muslim world / Jane Connors.
edited by Mai Yamani, with additional editorial assistance from Andrew Allen.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 373-376) and index.