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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sonbol, Amira El Azhary.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Muslim women--Historiography.

Muslim women.

Women--Islamic countries--Historiography.

Women.

Muslim women--Social conditions.

Women--Islamic countries--Social conditions.

Historiography.

Islamic countries.

Social conditions.

Physical Description:

522 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cairo : American University in Cairo Press, 2006.

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 Shariʻa 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 Akşin 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.

Notes:

Originally published by Syracuse University Press, 2005.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 467-500) and index.

ISBN:

9774160029

OCLC:

74814012