Muslim women
By: edited by Freda Hussain.
Contributors: Hussain, Freda.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 1984
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
Subjects: Muslim women.
Notes: Includes bibliographies and index.
Table of contents: value: Introduction: the ideal and contextual realities of Muslim women / Freda Hussain; value: The status of women in early Islam / Barbara Freyer Stowasser; value: The Islamic revolution and women / Freda Hussain and Kamelia Radwan; value: Roles in transition / Debbie J. Gerner; value: The literary treatment of women in North Africa / Anne-Marie Nisbet; value: Early feminist movements in Turkey and Egypt / Leila Ahmed; value: A traditional ceremony in an Islamic milieu in Malaysia / Heather Strange; value: Islam and the legal status of women in Tunisia / Norma Salem; value: Female education in Egypt / Hind A. Khattab and Syeda Greiss el-Daeiff; value: The struggle of women in the national development of Pakistan / Freda Hussain; value: Lessons from fieldwork in the Sudan / Carolyn Fleuhr-Lobban.