Women, Islam, and Abbasid identity /

When the Abbasids overthrew the Umayyads in 750 CE and ushered in Islam s Golden Age, ideas about gender and sexuality were central to the process by which the Caliphate achieved self-definition and articulated its systems of power and thought. Nadia Maria El Cheikh s study reveals the importance of...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: El-Cheikh, Nadia Maria (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2015.
Temas:
Abbasiden > 749-1258
750-1258
Muslim women > History.
Abbasids > History.
Musulmanes > Histoire.
ʻAbbāssides > Histoire.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
HISTORY > Middle East > General.
Abbasids
Muslim women
Frau
Islam
Religiöse Identität
Society.
Islamic Empire > History > 750-1258.
Empire islamique > Histoire > 750-1258.
Islamic Empire
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Hind bint 'Utba : prototype of the Jahiliyya and Umayyad woman
  • Women's lamentation and death rituals in early Islam
  • The heretical within : the Qaramita and the intimate realm
  • Beyond borders : gender and the Byzantines
  • Fashioning a new identity : women exemplars and the search for meaning.

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