Women in the medieval Islamic world : power, patronage, and piety / edited by Gavin R.G. Hambly.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hambly, Gavin, 1934-

Series:

New Middle Ages ; v. 6.

The new Middle Ages ; v. 6

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Muslim women--History.

Muslim women.

History.

Physical Description:

566 pages ; 21 cm.

Edition:

First paperback edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : St. Martin's Press, 1999.

Summary:

Women often appear invisible in what is widely perceived as the male-oriented society of Islam. Women in the Medieval Islamic World seeks to redress the balance with a series of original essays on women in the pre-modern phase of Islamic history. The reader will encounter here a colorful portrait gallery of rulers, politicians, poets and patrons, as well as some larger than life fictitious females from the pages of Arabic, Persian and Turkish literature. No less authentic are the accounts of quiet or troubled lives of ordinary women preserved in the court records of Mamluk Egypt and Ottoman Turkey, reminders that historical research can resuscitate the lives of subaltern as well as elite women from the past. For people who believe that Muslim women, especially medieval Muslim women, have no history, this book demonstrates the ways in which research by twenty international scholars -- sometimes working in their own distinct fields and sometimes in overlapping areas -- can bring into focus the role and contribution of women in the development of Islamic history. There will no longer be an excuse for their exclusion.

Contents:

Becoming visible : medieval Islamic women in historiography and history / Gavin R.G. Hambly

Three queens, two wives, and a goddess : the roles and images of women in Sasanian Iran / Jenny Rose

Women in pre-Islamic Central Asia : the K̲h̲atūn of Bukhara / Richard N. Frye

Zaynab bint 'Ali and the place of the women of the households of the first Imams in S̲h̲iʻite devotional literature / David Pinault

The bold and the beautiful : women and 'Fitna' in the 'Sirat D̲h̲̲̲āt al-Himma' : the story of Nura / Remke Kruk

Sayyida Hurra : the Ismāʼili Ṣulayḥid queen of Yemen / Farhad Daftary

Women's lamentations as protest in the "S̲h̲āhnāma' / Olga M. Davidson

Heroines and others in the heroic age of the Turks / Geoffrey Lewis

Female piety and patronage in the medieval 'ḥajj' / Marina Tolmacheva

Sulṭān Raḍiyya bint Iltutmis̲h̲ / Peter Jackson

Timūrid women : a cultural perspective / Priscilla P. Soucek

Conjugal rights versus class prerogatives : a divorce case in Mamlūk Cairo / Carl F. Petry

Invisible women : residents of early sixteenth-century Istanbul / Yvonne J. Seng

"She is trouble

and I will divorce her" : orality, honor, and representation in the Ottoman court of 'Aintab / Leslie Peirce

Women and the public eye in eighteenth-century Istanbul / Fariba Zarinebaf-Shahr

The 'Jewels of wonder' : learned ladies and princess politicians in the provinces of early Ṣafavid Iran / Maria Szuppe

The 'ʻAqāʼid al-Nisāʼ' :a glimpse at Ṣafavid women in local Iṣfāhani culture / Kathryn Babayan

Women in Ṣafavid Iran : the evidence of European travelers / Ronald W. Ferrier

Contributors to the urban landscape : women builders in Ṣafavid Isfahan and Mug̲h̲al Shahjahanabad / Stephen P. Blake

Armed women retainers in the zenanas of Indo-Muslim rulers : the case of Bibi Fāṭima / Gavin R.G. Hambly

Private lives and public piety : women and the practice of Islam in Mug̲h̲al India / Gregory C. Kozlowski

Women and the feminine in the court and high culture of Awadh, 1722-1856 / Michael H. Fisher

Embattled Begams : women as power brokers in early modern India / Richard B. Barnett

Sitt Naṣra bint ʻAdlān : a Sudanese noblewoman in history and tradition / Idris Salim al-Hasan and Neil McHugh.

Notes:

"First cloth edition: March 1998"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [551]-559).

ISBN:

0312224516

9780312224516

0312210574

9780312210571

OCLC:

43379574