Research Catalog

Title

Writing the feminine : women in Arab sources / edited by Manuela Marín and Randi Deguilhem.

Publication

London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, c2002.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Marín, Manuela.
• Deguilhem, Randi.

Description

xxvi, 278 p.; 22 cm.

Series Statement

The Islamic Mediterranean ; v. 1

Subjects

• Arabic literature > History and criticism
• Women in Islam
• Muslim women > History
• Women (Islamic law)

Contents

Click of needles: polygamy as an issue in Arabic popular epic / Remke Kruk -- Women in medieval classical Arab poetry / Teresa Garulo -- Andalusi proverbs on women / Nadia Lachiri -- Palestinian autobiographies: a source for women's history? / Susanne Enderwitz -- Women's access to public space according to al-Muḥallā bi-l-Āthār / Camilla Adang -- Juridicial sources for the study of women: limitations of the female's capacity to act according to Mālikī law / Cristina de la Puente -- Abandoned wives and their possibilities for divorce in al-Andalus: the evidence of the Wathāʼiq works / Amalia Zomeño -- Women's history: a study of al-Tanūkhī / Nadia Mari El-Cheikh -- Women in Andalusi biographical sources / María Luisa Ávila -- A borrowed space: Andalusi and Maghribi women in chronicles / María Jesús Viguera Molíns -- Women as prophets in Islam / Maribel Fierro -- Images of Lālla ʻAwīsh: a holy woman from Marrakech / Mariëtte van Beek -- Between symbol and reality: the image of women in twentieth century Arab art / Silvia Naef.

Call Number

JFD 02-19387

ISBN

1860646972

OCLC

50016143

Title

Writing the feminine : women in Arab sources / edited by Manuela Marín and Randi Deguilhem.

Imprint

London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, c2002.

Series

The Islamic Mediterranean ; v. 1

Added Author

Marín, Manuela.

Deguilhem, Randi.

Research Call Number

JFD 02-19387