Women and gender in Islam : historical roots of a modern debate /

• Ahmed, Leila .

• Women -- Arab countries -- Social conditions
• Muslim women -- Social conditions
• Sexism -- Arab countries -- History.
• Feminism -- Arab countries
• Muslim women -- Attitudes.

• Yale University Press,

• 0300055838 (pbk.)

• Originally published: 1992.
• Includes bibliographical references and index..
• PART I: The Pre-Islamic Middle East Chapter 1 Mesopotamia Chapter 2 The Mediterranean Middle East PART II: Founding Discourses Chapter 3 Women and the Rise of Islam Chapter 4 The Transitional Age Chapter 5 Elaboration of the Founding Discourses Chapter 6 Medieval Islam PART III: New Discourses Chapter 7 Social and Intellectual Change Chapter 8 The Discourse of the Veil Chapter 9 The First Feminists Chapter 10 Divergent Voices Chapter 11 The Struggle for the Future Conclusion Notes Index.

• Feminism and religion an introduction
• Encountering the transnational women Islam and the politics of interpretation
• Quranic schools agents of preservation and change
• Women in Islam an anthology from the Quran and Hadiths
• Women gender religion a reader
• Veil modesty privacy and resistance
• Education for spiritual moral social and cultural development
• Women in Islam the western experience
• Muslims their religious beliefs and practices
• Islam in transition religion and identity among British Pakistani youth
• Feminism and Islam legal and literary perspectives
• Introducing Buddhism
• Identities groups and social issues
• Introductory sociology
• Real world research a resource for social scientists and practitioner researchers