The unforgettable queens of Islam : succession, authority, gender /
The Unforgettable Queens of Islam is a book about Muslim women rulers, women who have contested rules of dynastic succession in medieval Yemen and India or stood for election in modern Pakistan and Indonesia. How did they achieve such feats? How could young Muslim women come to occupy the exalted of...
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
[2020]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction. Games of succession: patriarchy, power, gender
- Part I. Sacred Sources of Authority: The Quran and the Hadith
- 1. Queen of Sheba and the mighty throne
- 2. Aisha Bint Abu Bakr: battle of the camel, battle for succession
- Part II. Medieval Queens: Dynasty and Descent
- 3. Sayyida Hurra Queen Arwa of Yemen: 'the little Queen of Sheba'
- 4. Razia Sultan of India: 'Queen of the world Bilqis-I Jihan'
- Part III. Contemporary Queens: Institutionalization of Succession and Leadership
- 5. Benazir Bhutto: a queen 'without parallel'
- 6. Megawati Sukarnoputri: 'Limbuk becomes Queen'
- Conclusion. Patriarchal paradox?.