Beyond The Exotic

, by Sonbol, Amira El Azhary

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ISBN: 9780815630555 | 0815630557
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Copyright: 6/30/2005

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Contributors

Introduction

xvii

PART ONE Scripture

1. History Then, History Now: The Role of Medieval Islamic Religio-Political Sources in Shaping the Modern Debate on Gender

DENISE A. SPELLBERG

(12)

2. The Qur'an and History

BARBARA FREYER STOWASSER

(22)

3. Muslim Women: Public Authoriy, Scriptures, and "Islamic Law"

HAIFAA KHALAFALLAH

(16)

PART TWO Church Records

4. Gendered Sources in Ethnohistorical Research: The Study of Emigration from a Lebanese Village

PATRICIA MIHALY NABTI

(18)

5. Individualism and Political Modernity: Devout Catholic Women in Aleppo and Lebanon Between the Seventeenth and Nineteenth Centuries

BERNARD HEYBERGER

(18)

PART THREE Awqaf

6. Women, Patronage, and Charity in Ottoman Istanbul

FARIBA ZARINEBAF

(13)

7. Consciousness of Self: The Muslim Woman as Creator and Manager of Waqf Foundations in Late Ottoman Damascus

RANDI DEGUILHEM

102

(17)

PART FOUR The Archival Records

8. Sources for the Study of Slave Women and Concubines in Ottoman Egypt

NELLY HANNA

119

(12)

9. Thoughts on Women and Slavery in the Ottoman Era and Historical Sources

MADELINE ZILFI

131

(8)

10. Observations on the Use of Shari'a Court Records as a Source of Social History

RAMADAN AL-KHOWLI

139

(13)

11. Mahkama Records as a Source for Women's History: The Case of Constantine

FATIMA ZOHRA GUECHI

152

(13)

PART FIVE The Legal Record

12. "And God Knows Best": The Fatwa as a Source for the History of Gender in the Arab World

JUDITH E. TUCKER

165

(15)

13. Gender Violence in Kanunnames and Fetvas of the Sixteenth Century

ELYSE SEMERDJIAN

180

(18)

14. Mixed and Other Courts: Women and Modern Patriarchy

AMIRA EL-AZHARY SONBOL

198

(29)

15. Islamic Personal Law in American Courts

RICHARD FREELAND

227

(22)

PART SIX The Written Record-Textbooks and Discourses

16. Learning Gendered Modernity: The Home, the Family, and the Schoolroom in the Construction of Egyptian National Identity (1885-1919)

LISA POLLARD

249

(21)

17. The Use of Textbooks as a Source of History for Women: The Case of Turn-of-the-Century Egypt

MONA RUSSELL

270

(25)

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

SELÇUK AKSIN SOMEL

295

(12)

19. The History of the Discourses on Gender and Islamism in Contemporary Egypt (1980-1990)

MERVAT F. HATEM

307

(14)

PART SEVEN Art and Architecture

20. Female Patronage of Mamluk Architecture in Cairo

HOWAYDA AL-HARITHY

321

(15)

21. Islamic Art as a Source for the Study of Women in Premodern Societies

SHEILA S. BLAIR

336

(11)

22. Discerning the Hand-of-Fatima: An Iconological Investigation of the Role of Gender in Religious Art

DIANE APOSTOLOS-CAPPADONA

347

(18)

PART EIGHT Popular Culture and Oral Tradition

23. Oral Traditions as a Source for the Study of Muslim Women: Women in the Sufi Orders

VALERIE J. HOFFMAN

365

(16)

24. Political Science Without Clothes: The Politics of Dress; or, Contesting the Spatiality of the State in Egypt

MAMOUN FANDY

381

(20)

Notes

401

(58)

Glossary

459

(8)

Bibliography

467

(34)

Index

501

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