Getting God's Ear
Edition: second edition edition
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: January 15, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 498
ISBN-13: 9780231116664
Subjects: Islam; Islamic studies; Women's studies; Sociology Of Women; Women In Islam; Religion - World Religions; Religion; Arabian peninsula; Saudi Arabia; Islam - General; Middle East - Saudi Arabia; Women's Studies - General; Social Science / General; Biblical Criticism & Interpretation - General; 20th century; History; Religious life; Social conditions; Women; Women healers
First sentence: One of the means missionaries used to spread the Gospel was to circulate Bible literature in Arabic, and so they were particularly sensitive to the ability of women candidates for proselytism to read.