Women in the Medieval Islamic World (The New Middle Ages)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: October 29, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 592
ISBN-13: 9780312224516
Subjects: Islam - General; Medieval; Women's Studies - History; History / Medieval; Religion : Islam - General; Social Science : Women's Studies - History; Middle East - General; History; History - General History; Textbooks; History: World
First sentence: Most general overviews of Islamic history, and perhaps especially those to which students are first introduced, have little or nothing to say about the lives of women.