Beyond the exotic
Subtitle: women's histories in Islamic societies
By: edited by Amira el-Azhary Sonbol
Publisher: American University in Cairo Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Cairo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 522
ISBN-13: 9789774160028
Subjects: Historiography; Social conditions; Muslim women; Women
Notes: Originally published by Syracuse University Press, 2005.

Includes bibliographical references  (p. 467-500) and index.
Table of contents: title: History then, history now: the role of medieval Islamic religio-political sources in shaping the modern debate on gender / Denise A. Spellberg; title: The Qur'an and history / Barbara Freyer Stowasser; title: Muslim women: public authority, scriptures, and "Islamic law" / Haifaa Khalafallah; title: Gendered sources in ethnohistorical research: the study of emigration from a Lebanese village / Patricia Mihaly Nabti; title: Individualism and political modernity: devout Catholic women in Aleppo and Lebanon between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries / Bernard Heyberger; title: Women, patronage, and charity in Ottoman Istanbul / Fariba Zarinebaf; title: Consciousness of self: the Muslim woman as creator and manager of Waqf foundations in late Ottoman Damascus / Randi Deguilhem; title: Sources for the study of slave women and concubines in Ottoman Egypt / Nelly Hanna; title: Thoughts on women and slavery in the Ottoman era and historical sources / Madeline Zilfi; title: Observations on the use of Shariʻa court records as a source of social history / Ramadan al-Khowli; title: Mahkama records as a source for women's history: the case of Constantine / Fatima Zohra Guechi; title: "And God knows best": the Fatwa as a source for the history of gender in the Arab world / Judith E. Tucker; title: Gender violence in Kanunnames and Fetvas of the sixteenth century / Elyse Semerdjian; title: Mixed and other courts: women and the modern patriarchy / Amira El-Azhary Sonbol; title: Islamic personal law in American courts / Richard Freeland; title: Learning gendered modernity: the home, the family, and the schoolroom in the construction of Egyptian national identity (1885-1919) / Lisa Pollard; title: The use of textbooks as a source of history for women: the case of turn-of-the-century Egypt / Mona Russell; title: 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; title: The history of the discourses on gender and Islamism in contemporary Egypt (1980-1990) / Mervat F. Hatem; title: Female patronage of Mamluk architecture in Cairo / Howayda al-Harithy; title: Islamic art as a source for the study of women in premodern societies / Sheila S. Blair; title: Discerning the hand-of-Fatima: an iconological investigation of the role of gender in religious art / Diane Apostolos-Cappadona; title: Oral traditions as a source for the study of Muslim women: women in the Sufi orders / Valerie J. Hoffman; title: Political science without clothes: the politics of dress; or, contesting the spatiality of the state in Egypt / Mamoun Fandy.