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This ground-breaking collection of fifteen essays provides a greater understanding of the history of the Gulf and the Arab world as well as the history of Muslim women. The result of a project aimed at finding sources and studying the history of women in the region, the articles are presented thematically and chronologically, starting with ancient history, and moving on to the medieval, early modern and contemporary periods. They present discourses regarding the life of women in early Islam, considering women's work and the diversity of jobs they performed as part of their economic contribution, the family, the legal system, and laws dealing with women and family from the pre-modern to the modern periods.
Foreword / Her Highness Sheikha Moza Bint Nasser -- Introduction : researching the gulf / Amira El-Azhary Sonbol -- Women in Eastern Arabia : myth and representation / Hatoon Ajwad al-Fassi -- Tribalism, tribal feuds, and the social status of women / Allen Fromherz -- Women and politics in late Jahili and early Islamic Arabia : reading behind patriarchal history / Barbara Freyer Stowasser -- Love discourse in Hijazi society under the Umayyads : a study in class and gender / Amira El-Zein -- Nomadic histories : reflections on bedouin women's poetry from the gulf region / Moneera al-Ghadeer -- Women and the economy : pre-oil gulf states / Hoda El Saadi -- A labor of love : making space for midwives in gulf history / Hibba Abugideiri -- Women's religious activities in the Arabian peninsula : a historical outlook / Omaima Abou-Bakr -- Women and education in the gulf : between the modern and the traditional / Ramadan al-Khouli -- Women of the gulf during the first half of the twentieth century : a comparative study of American missionary archives and local memory / Fatma al-Sayegh -- Some considerations on the family in the Arabian peninsula in the late Ottoman and early post-Ottoman period / Soraya Altorki -- The family in gulf history / Amira El-Azhary Sonbol -- Gender rights and Islamic legal tradition : an exploration / Ziba Mir-Hosseini -- Gulf women and the codification of Muslim family law / Lynn Welchman -- Bibliography -- Glossary -- Acknowledgements -- Index.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [407]-428 and index.