Women in the Medieval Islamic World

Name: Women in the Medieval Islamic World
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ISBN: 9780312224516

ISBN-10: 0312224516

ISBN-13: 9780312224516

Edition: 1999 (Revised)

Authors: Gavin R. G. Hambly, Gavin R. Hambly, Gavin R. Hambly

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List price: $99.99
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date: 11/25/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 566
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 1.30" tall
Weight: 1.606
Language: English



Series Editor's Foreword


Preface


Note on Transliteration


List of Illustrations


Introduction: Becoming Visible: Medieval Islamic Women in Historiography and History




Three Queens, Two Wives, and A Goddess: the Roles and Images of Women in Sasanian Iran




Women in Pre-Islamic Central Asia: The Khatun of Bukhara




Zaynab Bint 'Ali and the Place of the Women of the Households of the First Imams in Shi'ite Devotional Literature




The Bold and the Beautiful: Women and 'Fitna' in the 'Sirat Dhat Al-Himma': The Story of Nura




Sayyida Hurra: The Isma'ili Sulayhid Queen of Yemen




Women's Lamentations As Protest in the 'Shahnama'




Heroines and Others in the Heroic Age of the Turks




Female Piety and Patronage in the Medieval 'Hajj'




Sultan Radiyya Bint Iltutmish




Timurid Women: A Cultural Perspective




Conjugal Rights Versus Class Prerogatives: A Divorce Case in Mamluk Cairo




Invisible Women: Residents of Early Sixteenth-Century Istanbul




"She is Trouble...and I Will Divorce Her": Orality, Honor, and Representation in the Ottoman Court of 'Aintab




Women and the Public Eye in Eighteenth-Century Istanbul




The 'Jewels of Wonder': Learned Ladies and Princess Politicians in the Provinces of Early Safavid Iran




The "Aqa'id Al-Nisa": A Glimpse at Safavid Women in Local Isfahani Culture




Women in Safavid Iran: The Evidence of European Travelers




Contributors to the Urban Landscape: Women Builders in Safavid Isfahan and Mughal Shahjahanabad




Armed Women Retainers in the Zenanas of Indomuslim Rulers: The Case of Bibi Fatima




Private Lives and Public Piety: Women and the Practice of Islam in Mughal India




Women and the Feminine In the Court and High Culture of Awadh, 1722-1856




Embattled Begams: Women as Power Brokers In Early Modern India




Sitt Nasra Bint 'Adlan: A Sudanese Noblewoman in History and Tradition



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