WOMEN AND GENDER IN ISLAM image Historical Roots of a Modern Debate,Leila Ahmed

-About this book

 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.

-CONTENTS

Foreword by Kecia Ali
Acknowledgments
Introduction
PART 1:The Pre-Islamic Middle East

Chapter 1 Mesopotamia
Chapter 2 The Mediterranean Middle East
PART 2:Founding Discourses

Chapter 3 Women and the Rise of Islam
Chapter 4 The Transitional Age
Chapter 5 Elaboration of the Founding Discourses
Chapter 6 Medieval Islam
PART 3:New Discourses

Chapter 7 Social and Intellectual Change
Chapter 8 The Discourse of the Veil
Chapter 9 The First Feminists
Chapter 10 Divergent Voices
Chapter 11 The Struggle for the Future
Conclusion
Notes
Index

 -caractéristiques

Date de parution : 16 mars 2012

ASIN : 0300055838

Éditeur : Yale University Press; Reissue édition  

Langue : Anglais

NB . de pages : 312 pages

ISBN-10 : 9780300055832

ISBN-13 : 978-0300055832

Poids de l’article : 448 g

Dimensions : 23.39 x 15.16 x 2.08 cm