Women in Islam:

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1. Abbott, Nabia. Aishah the Beloved of Muhammad. New York: Arno Press, 1973. Based on traditions of the Muslim "Sunni" community it is a "must-read" for anyone who is interested in the early believers' perception of the Prophet's relationships with his several wives.
2. ________. Two Queens of Baghdad. 1946 Reprint, Worcester: Al-Saqi Books, 1986. The reader is presented with the private life of the 8th C. caliph Harun al-Rashid, whose mother and wife ( the two Queens) had started life as slave girls.
3. Ahmed, Leila. Women and Gender in Islam. New Haven: Yale University Press,1992.
4. Badran, Margot and Miriame Cooke(Editors). Opening the Gates: A Century of Arab Feminist Writing. London: Virago Press, 1990.
5. Begum, Hasna. "Moral Code for Women in Islam." In her Women in the Developing World: Thoughts and Ideals.New Delhi: Sterling Publishers, pp13-26.
6. David J. Duncan "Scholarly Views of Shajarat al-Durr: A Need for Concensus," Arab Studies Quarterly 22/1 (Winter 2000), pp. 51-69.
7. Fadel, Mohammad. "Two Women, One Man: Knowledge, Power, and Gender in Medieval Suni Legal Thought." IJMES 29 no. 2 (May 1997): 185-204.
8. Fay, Mary Ann. "Women and Waqf: Toward a Reconsideration of Women's Place in the Mamluk Household." IJMES 29 no. 1 (Feb. 1997): 33-51.
9. Al-Hamdani, Husain F. "The Life and Times of Queen Saiyidah Arwa the Sulaihid of the Yemen," JRAS XVII (1931): 505-16.
10. Hawting, G. R. " The Role of the Qur'ān and Hadīth in the Legal Controversy about the Rights of Divorced Women during Her "Waiting Period"('Idda)," BSOAS 52(1989): 430-45.
11. Helms, Barbara Lois. Rabi`ah as Mystic, Muslim and Woman. In A. Sharma, Ed. Women in World Religions: Vol. 3. Albany: SUNY Press, 1994.
12. Al-Imad, Leila. "Women and Religion in the Fatimid Caliphate: The Case of al-Sayyidah al-Hurrah, Queen of Yemen," in Intellectual Studies on Islam, ed. Michel Mazzaoui and Vera Moreen. U of Utah Press, 1990, pp. 137-144.
13. Keddie, Nikki R. and Beth Baron.  Women in Middle Eastern History. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991.
14. Mernissi, Fatima. Beyond the Veil. Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1987.
15. ________. The Veil and the Male Elite. translated by Mary Jo Lakeland. Massachusettes: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc.,1987.
16. ________. The Forgotten Queens of Islam. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1993.
17. ________. Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood. Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc., 1994. An Autobiographical sketch by Mernissi; delightful if somewhat romanticized.
18. Nurbakhsh, Dr. Javad. Sufi Women. London: Khaniqahi-Nimatullahi Publications, 1990.
19. Sanni, Amidu. "Women Critics in Arabic Literary Traidition With Particular Reference to Sukayna Bint al-Husayn," in BRISMES: Proceedings of the 1991 International Conference in Middle Eastern Studies, pp. 358-66.
20. Smith, Jane I. "Islam." In A. Sharma, ed. Women in World Religions.Albany: SUNY Press, 1987, pp. 235-250.
21. Stowasser, Barbara F. Women in the Qur'an, Traditions, and Interpretation. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994.
22. Spellberg, D. A. Politics, Gender, and the Islamic Past: The Legacy of `A'isha Bint Abī Bakr. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994. An extremely important work which examines shi`i and sunni attitudes to the woman recognized by many as the beloved of Muhammad, but by others as she who led the battle of the camel against `Ali, the nephew and son in law of the Prophet.
23. ________. "Writing the Unwritten Life of the Islamic Eve: Menstruation and the Demonization of Motherhood." International Journal of Middle East Studies vol. 28, no.3 (Aug. 1996): 305-24.
24. Von Schlegell, Barbara R. and Kimball, M.,Muslim Women throughout the World, London, 1966.
25. Yasser Tabbaa, "Dayfa Khatun: Regent Queen and Architectural Patron," in D. Fairchild Ruggles, ed. Women, Patronage, and Self-Representation in Islamic Societies. Albany: SUNY Press, 2000.
26. Walther, Wiebker. Women:From Medieval to Modern Times. Introduction by Guity Nashat. New York: Markus Wiener Publishing, 1993.

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