Women in IslamThe issue of both urban and rural women in Islam from a largely historical standpoint, focussing on the central Islamic countries, i.e., the Arab world, Turkey, Iran and Mughal India. |
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User Review - Not Available - Book VerdictThe Western misconception of all Muslim women as robed and veiled, languishing unfulfilled in harems under the harsh rule of polygamous husbands, is dispelled in this new translation of Walther's 1981 ... Read full review
Contents
Foreword | 1 |
Woman in Islamic Law in the Koran and in Tradition | 47 |
Selected Bibliography | 241 |
Copyright | |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Women in Islam |
| Author | Wiebke Walther |
| Edition | 2, illustrated, reprint, revised |
| Publisher | M. Wiener Pub., 1993 |
| ISBN | 1558760520, 9781558760523 |
| Length | 281 pages |
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