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Gulf Women - Essays
Collection
This ground-breaking collection of fifteen essays provides a greater understanding of the history of the Gulf and the Arab world as well as the history of Muslim women.
They present discourses regarding the life of women in early Islam, considering women's work and the diversity of jobs they performed as part of their economic contribution, the family, the legal system, and laws dealing with women and family from the pre-modern to the modern periods.
Table Of Contents
Foreword
by Her Highness Sheikha Mozah Bint Nasser Al Missned
Introduction: Researching the Gulf
Women in Eastern Arabia: Myth and Representation. Hatoon Ajwad al-Fassi
(Professor of history, King Saud University, Riyadh)
Tribalism, Tribal Feuds and the Social Status of Women. Allen Fromherz
(Assistant Professor of History, Georgia State University)
Women and Politics in Late Jahili and Early Islamic Arabia: Reading behind
Patriarchal History. Barbara Freyer Stowasser (Professor of Arabic, Georgetown
University)
Love Discourse in Hijazi Society Under the Umayyads: A Study in Class and
Gender. Amira El-Zein (Visiting Associate Professor of Arabic/Islamic Studies
and Comparative Literature, Georgetown School of Foreign Service, Qatar)
Nomadic Histories: Reflections on Bedouin Women's Poetry from the Gulf Region.
Moneera Al-Ghadeer (Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Qatar
University)
Women and the Economy: Pre-oil Gulf States. Hoda El Saadi (Associate Professor
of History, Cairo University)
A Labor of Love: Making Space for Midwives in Gulf History. Hibba Abugideiri
(Assistant Professor of History, Villanova University)
Women's Religious Activities in the Arabian Peninsula: A Historical Outlook.
Omaima Abou-Bakr (Professor of Literature, Cairo University)
Women and Education in the Gulf: Between the Modern and the Traditional.
Ramadan al-Khouli (Doctoral Candidate, Department of History, Cairo University)
Women
of the Gulf During the First Half of the Twentieth Century: A Comparative Study
of American Missionary Archives and Local Memory. Fatma al-Sayegh (Professor of
History, University of the Emirates)
Some Considerations on the Family in the Arabian Peninsula in the Late Ottoman
and Early Post-Ottoman Period. Soraya Altorki (Professor of Anthropology,
American University in Cairo)
The Family in Gulf History. Amira El-Azhary Sonbol (Professor of Islamic
History, Law and Society, Georgetown University)
Gender Rights and Islamic Legal Tradition: An Exploration Ziba Mir-Hosseini
(Freelance Academic at New York University and London)
Gulf Women and the Codification of Family Law. Lynn Welchman (Professor, SOAS,
London)
Bibliography
Glossary of Terms
Index