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Title: Women and Gender in Islam: Historical Roots of a Modern Debate by Leila Ahmed ISBN: 0-300-05583-8 Publisher: Yale University Press Pub. Date: 01 August, 1993 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.38 (8 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Everyone should read this
Comment: By far the best scholarly and historical work amidst the increasing number of books on this topic. Particularly interesting is the discussion of how Muslim caliphs adopted the Persian custom of having huge imperial harems. Of course, this is one of the aspects of "Muslim" culture that really tantalized the early Orientalists, as discussed by Edward Said in his book on the subject.
Rating: 3
Summary: Worth Reading
Comment: This one has been circulating for a while now, and I grabbed a copy recently. I have been studying the role of gender in traditional societies and have always been shocked at way in which modern scholarship approaches these issues from a relative moral position completely inaccessible to the social order they are studying. This title offers some good studies in the first two chapters of women in societies before Islam in and around the Middle East, but once she gets into Islam I feel she loses sight of the context. First off she takes everything she reads in the hadith literature at face value. While the hadith literature contributes greatly to the oppression of women in Islam, we must understand that this hadith literature was developed over several centuries (see Islam, Fazlur Rahman) and cannot be taken as strictly objective in the modern sense of the word. In her acceptance of the hadith literature, with its glaring contradictory reports, she passes over subjects of debate with simplicity and charm. I was unmoved by this sort of approach and was expecting a bit more, but it was still an enjoyable read.
Rating: 4
Summary: Good history book
Comment: This is a good book for anyone to read who doesn't know much about Islam. The author gives several chapters of in-depth history of the rise of Islam. It is interesting to read--not dry and boring like a lot of other detailed history books.
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Title: The Veil and the Male Elite: A Feminist Interpretation of Women's Rights in Islam by Fatima Mernissi, Mary Jo Lakeland ISBN: 0201632217 Publisher: Perseus Books Group Pub. Date: 01 November, 1992 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Islam, Gender and Social Change by Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad, John L. Esposito ISBN: 0195113578 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 1997 List Price(USD): $21.00 |
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Title: Beyond the Veil: Male-Female Dynamics in a Modern Muslim Society by Fatima Mernissi ISBN: 0253204232 Publisher: Indiana University Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 1987 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Qur'an and Woman: Rereading the Sacred Text from a Woman's Perspective by Amina Wadud ISBN: 0195128362 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Faith and Freedom: Women's Human Rights in the Muslim World (Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East) by Mahnaz Afkhami ISBN: 0815626681 Publisher: Syracuse University Press Pub. Date: 01 July, 1995 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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