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Women and Gender in Islam
Historical Roots of a Modern Debate
Series: Veritas Paperbacks
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This pioneering study of the social and political lives of Muslim women has shaped a whole generation of scholarship. In Women and Gender in Islam, 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.
“Ahmed’s book is a serious and independent-minded analysis of its subject, the best-informed, most sympathetic and reliable one that exists today.”—Edward W. Said
“Destined to become a classic. . . . It gives [Muslim women] back our rightful place, at the centre of our histories.”—Rana Kabbani, The Guardian
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Ambitious and field-defining, Women and Gender in Islam by Leila Ahmed is praised for laying the foundations for decades of scholarship on Muslim history and thought, according to Kecia Ali from Boston University.
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ISBN: 9780300257311
Publisher: Yale University Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 11 May 2021
Country: United States
Imprint: Yale University Press
Contributors:
- Foreword by Kecia Ali
Audience: General / adult, Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Width: 127.0mm
Height: 197.0mm
Weight: 272g
Pages: 312
About the Author
Leila Ahmed is Victor S. Thomas Professor of Divinity at Harvard Divinity School. Her most recent book, A Quiet Revolution: The Veil’s Resurgence, from the Middle East to America, won the Grawemeyer Award in Religion for 2012. Kecia Ali is a professor of religion at Boston University.
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