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by Amira El-Azhary Sonbol (Editor)


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Most research has accepted stereotypical images of Muslim women, treating their outward manifestations, such as veiling, as passive and oppressive. Muslim women have been depicted as different, and by exoticizing (orientalizing) them--or Islamic society in general--"they" have been dealt with outside of general women's history and regarded as having little to contribute to the writing of world history or to the life of their sisters worldwide. By approaching widely used sources with different questions and methodologies, and by using new or little-used material (with much primary research), this book redresses these deficiencies. Scholars revisit and reevaluate scripture and scriptural interpretation; church records involving non-Muslim women of the Arab world; archival court records dating from the present back to the Ottoman period; and the oral and material culture and its written record, including oral history, textbooks, sufi practices, and the politics of dress. By deconstructing the past, these scholars offer fresh perspectives on women's roles and aspirations in Middle East societies.

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  • Title Beyond the Exotic: Women's Histories in Islamic Societies
  • Author Amira El-Azhary Sonbol (Editor)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st Edition
  • Pages 560
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Syracuse University Press, Syracuse, NY
  • Date 2005-06-14
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • ISBN 9780815630555 / 0815630557
  • Weight 1.9 lbs (0.86 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.32 x 6.12 x 1.58 in (23.67 x 15.54 x 4.01 cm)
  • Themes
    • Ethnic Orientation: Arabic
    • Religious Orientation: Islamic
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
  • Library of Congress subjects Muslim women - Social conditions, Women - Islamic countries - Social conditions
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2004025983
  • Dewey Decimal Code 305.486

About the author

Amira El-Azhary Sonbol is professor of Islamic history, law, and society at Georgetown University. She is author of Women of Jordan: Islam, Labor, and the Law; The New Mamluks: Egyptian Society and Modern Feudalism; and The Creation of a Medical Profession in Egypt, 1800-1922, and editor of Women, the Family, and Divorce Laws in Islamic History, each published by Syracuse University Press.
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