Guides: HIS 256 The Islamic World to 1683: Women, Family, Gender

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The Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Women by Natana J. DeLong-Bas (Editor-In-Chief)
Publication Date: 2013-10-16
Scholarship on Islam and women has expanded exponentially over the past twenty years, with increasing specialization within the field, as well as cross-pollination between other fields and disciplines. With this surge in interest there is a genuine need for a systematic reference work to provide balanced comprehensive coverage of the field.The Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Women is designed to meet this need by providing clear, current, comprehensive information within the study of women and Islam.
Women in Islam and the Middle East: a reader by Ruth Roded
Publication Date: 2008-05-15
Much of the lively and often heated debate on the role of women in Islam and Middle Eastern society is grounded in different readings of the primary Arabic, Persian, Turkish and other sources and historical precedents. These key texts remain inaccessible to English-speaking readers.Women in Islam and the Middle East fills this gap by gathering material concerning women in Islam from a wide range of sources, dating from the early Islamic period to the present day.
Women's Roles in the Middle East and North Africa by Ruth Margolies Beitler; Angelica R. Martinez
Publication Date: 2010-04-09
This concise, content-rich volume provides an overview of women's roles in the Middle East and North Africa from the advent of Islam to the present. * A chronology of women's roles in the Middle East and North Africa encompassing work, religion, family, law, politics, and culture from pre-Islamic to contemporary times * Photographs illustrating various aspects of women's lives in the region * A selected bibliography including contemporary articles on new topics in women's research * A brief glossary of key terms such as abaya, sharia, and mahr
Consorts of the caliphs : women and the court of Baghdad by Shawkat M. Toorawa (Translator); Julia Bray (Introduction by); Library of Arabic Literature Editors (Translator); Ibn Al-Sai (Introduction by)
Publication Date: 2017-09-05
This slim but illuminating volume is one of the few surviving texts by the prolific Baghdadi scholar Ibn al-Sa'i, who chronicled the academic and political elites of his city in the final years of the Abbasid dynasty and the period following the cataclysmic Mongol invasion of 1258 AD. In this work, Ibn al-Sa'i is keen to forge a connection between the munificent wives of his time and the storiedlovers of the so-called golden age of Baghdad.
Women in the Islamic world : from earliest times to the Arab Spring by Irene Schneider; Stephen Rendall (Translator)
Publication Date: 2012-09-01
This book describes and analyses the different roles women have played in the Islamic world, past and present. Starting with Sharia regulations and their applications in societies throughout history, it addresses the obstacles and opportunities women have faced, and still face, in various Islamic societies. The last chapter addresses women's participation in the Arab Spring and their hopes and disappointments. The result is a vivid portrait of the different worlds of women in Islam, encompassing religion and law, sexuality and love, literature and the arts, law and professional life, and politics and power.

Women in the Mosque: a history of legal thought and social practice by Marion Holmes Katz
ISBN: 9780231537872
Publication Date: 2014-09-23
Juxtaposes Muslim scholars' debates over women's attendance in mosques with historical descriptions of women's activities within Middle Eastern and North African mosques.
Women in Islam and the Middle East: a reader by Ruth Roded
Publication Date: 2008-05-15
Much of the lively and often heated debate on the role of women in Islam and Middle Eastern society is grounded in different readings of the primary Arabic, Persian, Turkish and other sources and historical precedents. These key texts remain inaccessible to English-speaking readers.Women in Islam and the Middle East fills this gap by gathering material concerning women in Islam from a wide range of sources, dating from the early Islamic period to the present day.
The rights of women in Islam by Asghar Ali Engineer
This book covers various aspects relating to the status of women in the pre-Islamic period -- customs and traditions, forms of marriage, divorce and forms of divorce, dower, traditions regarding slave-girls, and so on. It then goes on to deal with the status of women in the post-Islamic period -- the Qur'anic concept of women's rights in marriage, divorce, inheritance, custody of children, polygamy, maintenance, property, right to earn, et cetera It quotes extensively from the Qur'an and Sunnah. It also deals with the Arab adaat, that is, pre-Islamic customs and traditions regarding women. Altogether, it attempts to arm Muslim women with Islamic arguments for their empowerment.
Consorts of the caliphs : women and the court of Baghdad by Shawkat M. Toorawa (Translator); Julia Bray (Introduction by); Library of Arabic Literature Editors (Translator); Ibn Al-Sai (Introduction by)
Publication Date: 2017-09-05
This slim but illuminating volume is one of the few surviving texts by the prolific Baghdadi scholar Ibn al-Sa'i, who chronicled the academic and political elites of his city in the final years of the Abbasid dynasty and the period following the cataclysmic Mongol invasion of 1258 AD. In this work, Ibn al-Sa'i is keen to forge a connection between the munificent wives of his time and the storiedlovers of the so-called golden age of Baghdad.