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Women and Gender in Islam: Historical Roots of a Modern Debate

Women and Gender in Islam: Historical Roots of a Modern Debate

Ahmed, Leila
Ali, Kecia

Paperback

Series: Veritas Paperbacks

IslamGeneral Gender StudiesGeneral Middle Eastern History

Publisher Price: $20.00

ISBN10: 0300257317
ISBN13: 9780300257311
Publisher: Yale Univ Pr
Published: Mar 16 2021
Pages: 312
Weight: 0.57
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.70
Language: English
A classic, pioneering account of the lives of women in Islamic history, republished for a new generation

This pioneering study of the social and political lives of Muslim women has shaped a whole generation of scholarship. In it, Leila Ahmed explores the historical roots of contemporary debates, ambitiously surveying Islamic discourse on women from Arabia during the period in which Islam was founded to Iraq during the classical age to Egypt during the modern era. The book is now reissued as a Veritas paperback, with a new foreword by Kecia Ali situating the text in its scholarly context and explaining its enduring influence.

Ahmed's book is a serious and independent-minded analysis of its subject, the best-informed, most sympathetic and reliable one that exists today.--Edward W. Said

Destined to become a classic. . . . It gives [Muslim women] back our rightful place, at the center of our histories.--Rana Kabbani, The Guardian

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