TY - BOOK AU - Ahmed, Leila TI - Women and Gender in Islam: Historical Roots of a Modern Debate SN - 9780300257311 U1 - 305.486971 PY - 2021/// CY - New Haven; London PB - Yale University Press KW - Women -- Arab countries -- Social conditions N1 - 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 ER -