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Writing the feminine : women in Arab sources /

Writing the feminine : women in Arab sources / edited by Manuela Marín and Randi Deguilhem. - London ; New York : New York : I.B. Tauris in association with the European Science Foundation ; In the United States and Canada distributed by St. Martin's Press, 2002. - xxvi, 278 p. ; 23 cm. - The Islamic Mediterranean ; 1 .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-265) and index.

Click of needles: polygamy as an issue in Arabic popular epic / Remke Kruk -- Women in medieval classical Arab poetry / Teresa Garulo -- Andalusi proverbs on women / Nadia Lachiri -- Palestinian autobiographies: a source for women's history? / Susanne Enderwitz -- Women's access to public space according to al-Muḥallā bi-l-Āthār / Camilla Adang -- Juridicial sources for the study of women: limitations of the female's capacity to act according to Mālikī law / Cristina de la Puente -- Abandoned wives and their possibilities for divorce in al-Andalus: the evidence of the Wathāʼiq works / Amalia Zomeño -- Women's history: a study of al-Tanūkhī / Nadia Mari El-Cheikh -- Women in Andalusi biographical sources / María Luisa Ávila -- A borrowed space: Andalusi and Maghribi women in chronicles / María Jesús Viguera Molíns -- Women as prophets in Islam / Maribel Fierro -- Images of Lālla ʻAwīsh: a holy woman from Marrakech / Mariëtte van Beek -- Between symbol and reality: the image of women in twentieth century Arab art / Silvia Naef.

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Muslim women--History.
Women in Islam.
Women (Islamic law)
Arabic literature--History and criticism.
Women in literature.

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