Ahmed, Leila

Women and Gender in Islam: Historical Roots of a Modern Debate - New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2021. - 296 p.

Foreword by Kecia Ali.

Part 1: The pre-Islamic Middle East: Mesopotamia ; The Mediterranean Middle East

Part 2: Founding Discourses: Women and the rise of Islam ; The transitional age ; Elaboration of the founding discourses ; Medieval Islam

Part 3: New Discourses: Social and intellectual change ; The discourse of the veil ; The first feminists ; Divergent voices ; The struggle for the future

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Women -- Arab countries -- Social conditions

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