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BL
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724014
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b543732
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edited by Amira el-Azhary Sonbol.
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Beyond the exotic : : women's histories in Islamic societies\ edited by Amira el-Azhary Sonbol.
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| Publication Statement
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Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 2006
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xxxviii, 522 pages ; 24 cm
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| ISBN
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9774160029
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: 9789774160028
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| Notes
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Originally published by Syracuse University Press, 2005.
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| Contents
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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.
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Muslim women -- Historiography.
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Muslim women -- Social conditions.
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Women -- Islamic countries -- Historiography.
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| LC Classification
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HQ1170.E358 2006
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| Added Entry
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Amira El Azhary Sonbol
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