Women and gender in Islam : historical roots of a modern debate / Leila Ahmed ; with a foreword by Kecia Ali.

• Part 1: The pre-Islamic Middle East: Mesopotamia ; The Mediterranean Middle East -- Part 2: Founding Discourses: Women and the rise of Islam ; The transitional age ; Elaboration of the founding discourses ; Medieval Islam -- Part 3: New Discourses: Social and intellectual change ; The discourse of the veil ; The first feminists ; Divergent voices ; The struggle for the future.

• This pioneering study of the social and political lives of Muslim women has shaped a whole generation of scholarship. In it, Leila Ahmed explores the historical roots of contemporary debates, ambitiously surveying Islamic discourse on women from Arabia during the period in which Islam was founded to Iraq during the classical age to Egypt during the modern era. The book is now reissued as a Veritas paperback, with a new foreword by Kecia Ali situating the text in its scholarly context and explaining its enduring influence. 

Ämnesord

Kvinnor och islam  (sao)

Sexism  (sao)

Feminism  (sao)

Kvinnor  (sao)

Sociala förhållanden  (sao)

Islam  -- historia (sao)

Islam  (kao)

Muslimska kvinnor  (kao)

Feminism  (kao)

Levnadsförhållanden  (kao)

Social ställning  (kao)

Islam  (kao//eng)

Muslim women  (kao//eng)

Feminism  (kao//eng)

Living conditions  (kao//eng)

Social status  (kao//eng)

Muslimska kvinnor  -- attityder (sao)

Women in Islam  (LCSH)

Sexism  (LCSH)

Women  (LCSH)

Feminism  (LCSH)

Arabländerna  (sao)

Indexterm och SAB-rubrik

Ohja-oa Kvinnofrågor: Främre Asien

Cmdd Islam

Klassifikation

305.48697 (DDC)

Ohja-oa (kssb/8)

Cmdd (kssb/8)