Beyond the exotic : women's histories in Islamic societies / edited by Amira El-Azhary Sonbol.

Other author Sonbol, Amira El Azhary.
Format Book
Edition1st ed.
Publication InfoSyracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2005.
Descriptionxxxviii, 522 pages ; 24 cm.
Supplemental ContentTable of contents
Subjects

SeriesGender, culture, and politics in the Middle East
Gender, culture, and politics in the Middle East. ^A407607
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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 401-500) and index.
LCCN 2004025983
ISBN0815630557 (pbk : alk. paper)

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