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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: El-Cheikh, Nadia Maria (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2015.
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