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Women and Gender in Islam Leila Ahmed

Women and Gender in Islam By Leila Ahmed

Women and Gender in Islam by Leila Ahmed


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Women and Gender in Islam: Historical Roots of a Modern Debate by Leila Ahmed

A classic, pioneering account of the lives of women in Islamic history, republished for a new generation

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.

Ahmeds 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 center of our histories.Rana Kabbani, The Guardian

Women and Gender in Islam Reviews

"Ambitious and field-defining, Leila AhmedsWomen and Gender in Islamlaid the foundations for decades of scholarship on Muslim history and thought."Kecia Ali, Boston University

About Leila Ahmed

Leila Ahmed is Victor S. Thomas Professor of Divinity at Harvard Divinity School. Her most recent book, A Quiet Revolution: The Veils 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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NGR9780300257311
9780300257311
0300257317
Women and Gender in Islam: Historical Roots of a Modern Debate by Leila Ahmed
New
Paperback
Yale University Press
2021-05-11
312
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