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 Info | Urbana : University of Illinois Press, ©2003. |
| Description | xiv, 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 note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2002152213 |
| ISBN | 0252028392 (alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0252071212 (pbk. : alk. paper) |