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