The Veil And The Male Elite A Feminist Interpretation Of Women's Rights In Islam

by Mernissi, Fatima

• ISBN13: 9780201632217
• ISBN10: 0201632217
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1992-12-21
• Publisher: Basic Books

Summary

'Fatima Mernissi has more ideas per book than any other thinker in the Middle East. Her later works increasingly integrate her brilliant ideas into sustained and compelling discourse that is very much worthy of attention.'Laurence O. Michalak

Author Biography

Fatema Mernissi teaches sociology at University Mohammed V in Rabat, Morocco. She is the author of more than eight books, including Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood, Scheherazade Goes West, The Veil and the Male Elite, and Beyond the Veil.

Table of Contents

Preface to the English Edition	vi
Acknowledgments	x
Map of Arabia at the Time of the Hejira	xii
Introduction	1	(14)
PART I Sacred Text as Political Weapon
The Muslim and Time	15	(10)
The Prophet and Hadith	25	(24)
A Tradition of Misogyny (1)	49	(13)
A Tradition of Misogyny (2)	62	(23)
PART II Medina in Revolution: The Three Fateful Years
The Hijab, the Veil	85	(17)
The Prophet and Space	102	(13)
The Prophet and Women	115	(26)
`Umar and the Men of Medina	141	(20)
The Prophet as Military Leader	161	(19)
The Hijab Descends on Medina	180	(47)
Conclusion	189	(7)
Notes	196	(21)
APPENDICES
Appendix 1 Sources	217	(6)
Appendix 2 Chronology	223	(4)
Index	227