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Subject(s)

• Women—Persian Gulf—History [Browse]
• Women—Persian Gulf—Social conditions—History [Browse]
• Women—Arab countries—History [Browse]
• Women—Arab countries—Social conditions—History [Browse]
• Muslim women—Persian Gulf—History [Browse]
• Muslim women—Persian Gulf—Social conditions—History [Browse]
• Muslim women—Arab countries—History [Browse]
• Muslim women—Arab countries—Social conditions—History [Browse]
• Women—Persian Gulf—Social conditions [Browse]
• Muslim women—Persian Gulf—Social conditions [Browse]

Related name

• Sonbol, Amira El Azhary [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Aufsatzsammlung [Browse]

Summary note

This collection of 15 essays provides a greater understanding of the history of the Gulf and the Arab world as well as the history of Muslim women and women everywhere. The result of a project aimed at finding sources and studying the history of women in the Gulf, the articles are presented in a thematic and chronological order.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Women in eastern Arabia: myth and representation / Hatoon Ajwad al-Fassi
• Tribalism, tribal feuds and the social status of women / Allen Fromherz
• Women and politics in late Jahili and early Islamic Arabia: reading behind patriarchal history / Barbara Freyer Stowasser
• Love discourse in Hijazi society under the Umayyads: a study in class and gender / Amira El-Zein
• Nomadic histories: reflections on Bedouin women's poetry from the Gulf Region / Moneera al-Ghadeer
• Women and the economy: pre-oil Gulf States / Hoda El Saadi
• A labor of love: making space for midwives in Gulf history / Hibba Abugideiri
• Women's religious activities in the Arabian Peninsula: a historical outlook / Omaima Abou-Bakr
• Women and education in the Gulf: between the modern and the traditional / Ramadan al-Khouli
• Women of the gulf during the first half of the twenthieth century: a comparative study of American missionary archives and local memory / Fatma al-Sayegh
• Some considerations on the family in the Arabian peninsula in the late Ottoman and early post-Ottoman period / Soraya Altorki
• The family in Gulf history / Amira El-Azhary Sonbol
• Gender rights and Islamic legal tradition: an exploration / Ziba Mir-Hosseini
• Gulf women and the codification of Muslim family law / Lynn Welchman.

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ISBN

• 9789992142684 ((pbk.))
• 9992142685 ((pbk.))

OCLC

792978335

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