Women and Gender in Islam
Historical Roots of a Modern Debate
$28.01
- Paperback
312 pages
- Release Date
11 May 2021
Summary
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 expl…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780300257311 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0300257317 |
| Author: | Leila Ahmed, Kecia Ali |
| Publisher: | Yale University Press |
| Imprint: | Yale University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 312 |
| Release Date: | 11 May 2021 |
| Weight: | 272g |
| Dimensions: | 127mm x 197mm |
| Series: | Veritas Paperbacks |
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Critics Review
“Ambitious and field-defining, Leila Ahmed’s Women and Gender in Islam laid the foundations for decades of scholarship on Muslim history and thought.”–Kecia Ali, Boston University
“Ambitious and field-defining, Leila Ahmed’s Women and Gender in Islam laid the foundations for decades of scholarship on Muslim history and thought.“—Kecia Ali, Boston University
Leila Ahmed
Leila Ahmed is Victor S. Thomas Professor of Divinity at Harvard Divinity School. Her most recent book, A Quiet Revolution: The Veil’s Resurgence, from the Middle East to America, won the Grawemeyer Award in Religion for 2012.
Kecia Ali is a professor of religion at Boston University.
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