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A history of Islam in 21 women / Hossein Kamaly.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : Oneworld, 2019Copyright date: ©2019Description: viii, 261 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781786076434
  • 1786076438
Other title:
  • History of Islam in twenty-one women
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Khadija (ca. 560-619): the first believer -- Fatima (ca. 612-633): Prophet Muhammad's flesh and blood -- Aisha (ca. 615-678): "get half of your religion from her" -- Rabia al-Adawiyya (ca. 717-801): the embarrassment of riches, and its discontents -- Fatima of Nishapur (ca. 1000-1088): keeper of the faith -- Arwa of Yemen (ca. 1050-1138): the Queen of Sheba redux -- Terken Khatun (ca. 1205-1281): doing well and doing good -- Shajara'-al-Durr (d. 1257): perils of power, between caliphs and mamluks -- Sayyida al-Hurra of Tétouan (ca. 1492-ca, 1560): the free queen -- Pari Khanum (1548-1578): a golden link in the Safavid chain of command -- Nur Jahan (1577-1645): light of the world -- Safiye Sultan (ca. 1550-ca. 1619): a mother of many kings -- Tajul-Alam Safiatuddin Syah (1612-1675): diamonds are not forever -- Tehereh (ca. 1814-1852): heroine or heretic? -- Nana Asmau (1793-1864): jihad and sisterhood -- Mukhlisa Bubi (1896-1937): educator and jurist -- Halidé Edip (ca. 1884-1964): author of the new Turkey -- Noor Inayat Khan (1914-1944): the anxiety of belonging -- Umm Kulthum (ca. 1904-1975): lodestar of union -- Zaha Hadid (1950-2016): curves in glass and concrete -- Maryam Mirzakhani (1977-2017): the princess of mathematics.
Summary: Beginning in seventh-century Mecca and Medina, A History of Islam in 21 Women takes us around the globe, through eleventh-century Yemen and Khorasan, and into sixteenth-century Spain, Istanbul and India.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-254) and index.

Khadija (ca. 560-619): the first believer -- Fatima (ca. 612-633): Prophet Muhammad's flesh and blood -- Aisha (ca. 615-678): "get half of your religion from her" -- Rabia al-Adawiyya (ca. 717-801): the embarrassment of riches, and its discontents -- Fatima of Nishapur (ca. 1000-1088): keeper of the faith -- Arwa of Yemen (ca. 1050-1138): the Queen of Sheba redux -- Terken Khatun (ca. 1205-1281): doing well and doing good -- Shajara'-al-Durr (d. 1257): perils of power, between caliphs and mamluks -- Sayyida al-Hurra of Tétouan (ca. 1492-ca, 1560): the free queen -- Pari Khanum (1548-1578): a golden link in the Safavid chain of command -- Nur Jahan (1577-1645): light of the world -- Safiye Sultan (ca. 1550-ca. 1619): a mother of many kings -- Tajul-Alam Safiatuddin Syah (1612-1675): diamonds are not forever -- Tehereh (ca. 1814-1852): heroine or heretic? -- Nana Asmau (1793-1864): jihad and sisterhood -- Mukhlisa Bubi (1896-1937): educator and jurist -- Halidé Edip (ca. 1884-1964): author of the new Turkey -- Noor Inayat Khan (1914-1944): the anxiety of belonging -- Umm Kulthum (ca. 1904-1975): lodestar of union -- Zaha Hadid (1950-2016): curves in glass and concrete -- Maryam Mirzakhani (1977-2017): the princess of mathematics.

Beginning in seventh-century Mecca and Medina, A History of Islam in 21 Women takes us around the globe, through eleventh-century Yemen and Khorasan, and into sixteenth-century Spain, Istanbul and India.

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