Beyond the exotic : women's histories in Islamic societies /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Syracuse, N.Y. :
Syracuse University Press,
[2005]
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series: | Gender, culture, and politics in the Middle East.
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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 : the Muslim woman as creator and manager of Waqf foundations in late Ottoman Damascus / 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 shari'a court records as a source of social history / Ramadan al-Khowli
- Mahkama records as a source for women's history : the case of Constantine / 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 kanunnames and fetvas of the sixteenth century / Elyse Semerdjian
- Mixed and other courts : women and the modern patriarchy / Amira El-Azhary Sonbol
- Islamic personal law in American courts / Richard Freeland
- Learning gendered modernity : the home, the family, and the schoolroom in the construction of Egyptian national identity (1885-1919) / Lisa Pollard
- The use of textbooks as a source of history for women : the case of turn-of-the-century Egypt / 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 : women in the Sufi orders / Valerie J. Hoffman
- Political science without clothes : the politics of dress; or, contesting the spatiality of the state in Egypt / Mamoun Fandy.