Women in Iran from the rise of Islam to 1800
By: edited by Guity Nashat and Lois Beck
Contributors: Nashat, Guity, 1937-; Beck, Lois, 1944-
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 253
Subjects: Women -- Iran -- History; Women -- Iran -- Social conditions
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Women in pre-Islamic and early Islamic Iran / Guity Nashat; title: Women during the transition from Sasanian to early Islamic times / Jamsheed K. Choksy; title: Women and the urban religious elite in the pre-Mongol period / Richard W. Bulliet; title: Eleventh-Century women : evidence from Bayhaqi's history / Julie Scott Meisami; title: Women in the Seljuq period / Carole Hillenbrand; title: Women in Timurid dynastic politics / Beatrice Forbes Manz; title: Status, knowledge, and politics : women in Sixteenth-Century Safavid Iran / Maria Szuppe; title: Waters and women, maidens, and might : the passage of royal authority in the Shahnama; title: Taming the unruly king : Nizami's Shirin as lover and educator / Fatemeh Keshavarz; title: Lifting the veil from the face of depiction : the representation of women in Persian painting / Layla S. Diba