Feminist study of Islamic societies should critique its complicity with. Her text Women and Gender in Islam targets proclaimed feminists, both western and non-western, as the intended audience. “Ahmed’s book is a serious and independent-minded analysis of its subject, the best-informed, most sympathetic and reliable one that exists today. Ahmed locates her political awakening in her childhood, when she first discovered the contrast between mens and womens ways of knowing and discussing Islam in. Women & Gender in Islam by Leila Ahmed. Abstract Leila Ahmed, Women and Gender in Islam: Historical Roots of a Modern Debate (New Haven ConnYale University Press.: 1992). 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. In 1992 she published her book Women and Gender in Islam, which is regarded as a seminal historical analysis of the position of women in Arab Muslim societies. 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. To give a general look on the issue of woman and her position, Ahmed disembarks her discourse from the pre-Islamic Mesopotamia, by this way the ancient. Islam: The Choice of Thinking Women.Ismail Adam Patel - 1997. This pioneering study of the social and political lives of Muslim women has shaped a whole generation of scholarship. A Border Passage: From Cairo to America- a Womans Journey.Leila Ahmed - 2000 - Penguin Group USA.
Classic, pioneering account of the lives of women in Islamic history, republished for a new generation
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