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Beyond the Exotic : Women's Histories in Islamic Societies, Paperback / softback Book

Beyond the Exotic : Women's Histories in Islamic Societies Paperback / softback

Edited by Amira El-Azhary Sonbol

Part of the Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East series

Paperback / softback

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This volume introduces new sources for the study of the past and present life of Muslim women that challenge paradigms about the ways in which ""they"" have been studied in the past.

Most research has treated stereotypical images of Muslim women's outward manifestations, such as veiling, as passive and oppressive - women were depicted as different.

Exoticizing (orientalizing) Muslim women - or Islamic society in general - has meant that ""they"" are dealt with outside of general women's history and thus have little to contribute to the writing of world history or to the life of their sisters worldwide.

By approaching widely used sources with different questions and methodologies, and by using new or little-used research (with much primary research), this book redresses these deficiencies.

Amira El-Azhary Sonbol and the contributors deconstruct the past and offer fresh new perspectives.

Authors revisit and reevaluate scripture and scriptural interpretation; church records involving non-Muslim women of the Arab world; archival court records dating from the present back to the Ottoman period; and the oral and material culture and its written record, including art and architecture, oral history, textbooks, sufi practices, and the politics of dress.

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