Women in Iran from the rise of Islam to 1800 / edited by Guity Nashat and Lois Beck.

Other author Nashat, Guity, 1937-
Other author Beck, Lois, 1944-
Format Book
Publication InfoUrbana : University of Illinois Press, ©2003.
Descriptionxiv, 253 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Subjects

Contents Women in pre-Islamic and early Islamic Iran / Guity Nashat -- Women during the transition from Sasanian to early Islamic times / Jamsheed K. Choksy -- Women and the urban religious elite in the pre-Mongol period / Richard W. Bulliet -- Eleventh-Century women : evidence from Bayhaqi's history / Julie Scott Meisami -- Women in the Seljuq period / Carole Hillenbrand -- Women in Timurid dynastic politics / Beatrice Forbes Manz -- Status, knowledge, and politics : women in Sixteenth-Century Safavid Iran / Maria Szuppe -- Waters and women, maidens, and might : the passage of royal authority in the Shahnama -- Taming the unruly king : Nizami's Shirin as lover and educator / Fatemeh Keshavarz -- Lifting the veil from the face of depiction : the representation of women in Persian painting / Layla S. Diba.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2002152213
ISBN0252028392 (alk. paper)
ISBN0252071212 (pbk. : alk. paper)