Writing the feminine
Subtitle: women in Arab sources
By: edited by Manuela Marín and Randi Deguilhem.
Contributors: Deguilhem, Randi.; Marín, Manuela.
Series: The Islamic Mediterranean ;; 1
Publisher: I.B. Tauris in association with the European Science Foundation; In the United States and Canada distributed by St. Martin's Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: London ; New York; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
Subjects: Muslim women -- History; Women in Islam; Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. (Islamic law); Arabic literature -- History and criticism; Women in literature
Description: This book questions the conventional wisdom of the Mediterranean Muslim woman as a passive victim of the tyranny of religion, society, and male relatives. These original essays build on a range of experiences from varied regions and periods--from medieval love poetry to popular literary sources and fatwas and legal analyses--bear witness to the fact that individual women of all social classes play pivotal roles in both the private and public realms of Arab society. -- Publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-265) and index.
Table of contents: title: Click of needles: polygamy as an issue in Arabic popular epic / Remke Kruk; title: Women in medieval classical Arab poetry / Teresa Garulo; title: Andalusi proverbs on women / Nadia Lachiri; title: Palestinian autobiographies: a source for women's history? / Susanne Enderwitz; title: Women's access to public space according to al-Muḥallā bi-l-Āthār / Camilla Adang; title: Juridicial sources for the study of women: limitations of the female's capacity to act according to Mālikī law / Cristina de la Puente; title: Abandoned wives and their possibilities for divorce in al-Andalus: the evidence of the Wathāʼiq works / Amalia Zomeño; title: Women's history: a study of al-Tanūkhī / Nadia Mari El-Cheikh; title: Women in Andalusi biographical sources / María Luisa Ávila; title: A borrowed space: Andalusi and Maghribi women in chronicles / María Jesús Viguera Molíns; title: Women as prophets in Islam / Maribel Fierro; title: Images of Lālla ʻAwīsh: a holy woman from Marrakech / Mariëtte van Beek; title: Between symbol and reality: the image of women in twentieth century Arab art / Silvia Naef.