Women, Islam, and Abbasid identity /
El-Cheikh, Nadia Maria,author.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Hind bint 'Utba : prototype of the Jahiliyya and Umayyad woman -- Women's lamentation and death rituals in early Islam -- The hertical within : the Qaramita and the intimate realm -- Beyond borders : gender and the Byzantines -- Fashioning a new identity : women exemplars and the search for meaning.
Muslim women
Abbasids