Women, Islam, and Abbasid Identity / / Nadia Maria El Cheikh.
When the Abbasids overthrew the Umayyads in 750 CE and ushered in Islam's Golden Age, ideas about gender and sexuality were central to the process by which the caliphate achieved self-definition and articulated its systems of power and thought. Nadia Maria El Cheikh's study reveals the imp...
Saved in:
Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2015 |
---|---|
VerfasserIn: | |
Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2015] ©2015 |
Year of Publication: | 2015 |
Language: | English |
Online Access: | |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (176 p.) |
Tags: |
Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
Other title: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Hind bint 'Utba: Prototype of the Jahiliyya and Umayyad Woman -- 2. Women's Lamentation and Death Rituals in Early Islam -- 3. The Heretical Within: The Qaramita and the Intimate Realm -- 4. Beyond Borders: Gender and the Byzantines -- 5. Fashioning a New Identity: Women Exemplars and the Search for Meaning -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index |
---|---|
Summary: | When the Abbasids overthrew the Umayyads in 750 CE and ushered in Islam's Golden Age, ideas about gender and sexuality were central to the process by which the caliphate achieved self-definition and articulated its systems of power and thought. Nadia Maria El Cheikh's study reveals the importance of women to the writing of early Islamic history. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9780674089082 9783110439687 9783110438635 9783110665901 |
DOI: | 10.4159/9780674089082 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Nadia Maria El Cheikh. |