Beyond the Exotic: Women's Histories in Islamic Societies

BEYOND THE EXOTIC......Page 1
Contents......Page 5
Contributers......Page 7
Introduction......Page 10
PART ONE  Scripture......Page 21
1. History Then , History Now......Page 22
2. The Qur\'an and History......Page 28
3. Muslim Women......Page 39
PART TWO Church Records......Page 46
4. Gender sources in Ethnohistorical Research......Page 47
5. Individualism and Political Modernity......Page 56
PART THREE Awqaf......Page 64
6. Women , Patronage , and Charity in Ottoman Istanbul......Page 65
7. Consciousness of Self......Page 72
PART FOUR The Archival Records......Page 79
8. Sources for the Study of Slave women and Concubines in Ottoman Egypt......Page 80
9. Thoughts on Women and Slavery in the Ottoman Era and Historical Sources......Page 86
10. Observaton on the Use of Shari\'a Court Records as a Source of Social History......Page 90
11. Mahkama Records as a Source for Women\'s History......Page 97
PART FIVE The Legal Record......Page 102
12. And God Knows Best......Page 103
13. Gender Violence......Page 111
14. Mixed and Other Courts......Page 120
15. Islamic Personnel Law in American Courts......Page 134
PART SIX The Written Record -Textbooks and Discourses......Page 144
16. Learning Gendered Modernity......Page 145
17. The Use of Textbooks as a Source of History for Women......Page 156
18. Sources on the Education of Ottoman  Women in the Prime Ministerial Ottoman Archive for the Period of Reforms in the Nineteenth  and Early Twentieth Centuries......Page 168
19. The History of the Discources on Gender and Islamism in the Contemporary Egypt (1980-1990)......Page 174
PART SEVEN Art and Architecture......Page 180
20. Female Patronage of Mamluk Architecture in Cairo......Page 181
21. Islamic Arts as a  Source for the Study of Women in Premodern Societies......Page 189
22. Discerning the Hnad-of-Fatima......Page 194
PART EIGHT Popular Culture and Oral Tradition......Page 202
23. Oral Tradition as a Source  for the Study of Muslim Women......Page 203
24.Political Science Without Clothes......Page 211
Notes......Page 220
Glossary......Page 250
Bibliography......Page 254
Index......Page 271