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9781786076434

A History of Islam in 21 Women

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    9781786076434

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  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2020-03-10
  • Publisher: Oneworld Pubns Ltd
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Summary

The story of Islam as never presented before

Khadija was the first believer, to whom the Prophet Muhammad often turned for advice. At a time when strongmen quickly seized power from any female Muslim ruler, Arwa of Yemen reigned alone for five decades. In nineteenth-century Russia, Mukhlisa Bubi championed the rights of women and girls, and became the first Muslim woman judge in modern history. After the Gestapo took down a Resistance network in Paris, British spy Noor Inayat Khan found herself the only undercover radio operator left in that city. In this unique history, Hossein Kamaly celebrates the lives and achievements of twenty-one extraordinary women in the story of Islam, from the formative days of the religion to the present.

Author Biography

Hossein Kamaly is Associate Professor of Islamic Studies at Hartford Seminary. A scholar of the Middle East, focusing on the history of ideas, he has previously taught at Barnard College and Columbia University, and is the author of God and Man in Tehran. He lives in New York.

Table of Contents

Introduction

1 Khadija (ca. 560–619): The First Believer

2 Fatima (ca. 612–633): Prophet Muhammad’s Flesh and Blood

3 Aisha (ca. 615–678): “Get Half of Your Religion From Her”

4 Rabia al-Adawiyya (ca. 717–801): The Embarrassment of Riches, and its Discontents

5 Fatima of Nishapur (ca. 1000–1088): Keeper of the Faith

6 Arwa of Yemen (ca. 1050–1138): The Queen of Sheba Redux

7 Terken Khatun (ca. 1205–1281): Doing Well and Doing Good

8 Shajara’-al-Durr (d. 1257): Perils of Power, Between Caliphs and Mamluks

9 Sayyida al-Hurra of Tétouan (ca. 1492 –ca. 1560): The Free Queen

10 Pari Khanum (1548–1578): A Golden Link in the Safavid Chain of Command

11 Nur Jahan (1577–1645): Light of the World

12 Safiye Sultan (ca. 1550–ca. 1619): A Mother of Many Kings

13 Tajul-Alam Safiatuddin Syah (1612–1675): Diamonds Are Not Forever

14 Tahereh (ca. 1814–1852): Heroine or Heretic?

15 Nana Asmau (1793–1864): Jihad and Sisterhood

16 Mukhlisa Bubi (1869–1937): Educator and Jurist

17 Halidé Edip (ca. 1884–1964): Author of the New Turkey

18 Noor Inayat Khan (1914–1944): The Anxiety of Belonging

19 Umm Kulthum (ca. 1904–1975): Lodestar of Union

20 Zaha Hadid (1950–2016): Curves in Glass and Concrete

21 Maryam Mirzakhani (1977–2017): The Princess of Mathematics

Afterword

Notes

Further Reading

Bibliography

Acknowledgments

Index

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