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Book SynopsisIntroduction: Becoming Visible: Medieval Islamic Women in Historiography and History; Gavin R.G.Hambly Three Queens, Two Wives, and a Goddess: The Roles and Images of Women in Sasanian Iran; J.Rose Women in Pre-Islamic Central Asia: The Khatun of Bukhara; R.N.Frye Zaynab Bint `Ali and the Place of the Women of the Households of the First Imams in Shi'ite Devotional Literature; D.Pinault The Bold and the Beautiful: Women and `Fitna' in the 'Sirat Dhatal-Himma'; R.Kruk Sayyida Hurra: The Isma'ili Sulayhid Queen of Yemen; F. Daftary Women's Lamentations as Protest in the Shahnama; O.M.Davidson Heroines and Others in the Heroic Age of the Turks; G.Lewis Female Piety and Patronage in the Medieval Hajj; M.Tolmacheva Sultan Radiyya Bint Iltutmish; P.Jackson Timurid Women: A Cultural Perspective; P.P.Soucek Conjugal Rights Versus Class Prerogatives: A Divorce Case in Mamluk Cairo; C.F.Petty Invisible Women: Residents of Early Sixteenth-Century Istanbul; Y.J.Seng 'She Is Trouble...and I Will Di
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Becoming Visible: Medieval Islamic Women in Historiography and History; Gavin R.G.Hambly Three Queens, Two Wives, and a Goddess: The Roles and Images of Women in Sasanian Iran; J.Rose Women in Pre-Islamic Central Asia: The Khatun of Bukhara; R.N.Frye Zaynab Bint `Ali and the Place of the Women of the Households of the First Imams in Shi'ite Devotional Literature; D.Pinault The Bold and the Beautiful: Women and `Fitna' in the 'Sirat Dhatal-Himma'; R.Kruk Sayyida Hurra: The Isma'ili Sulayhid Queen of Yemen; F. Daftary Women's Lamentations as Protest in the Shahnama; O.M.Davidson Heroines and Others in the Heroic Age of the Turks; G.Lewis Female Piety and Patronage in the Medieval Hajj; M.Tolmacheva Sultan Radiyya Bint Iltutmish; P.Jackson Timurid Women: A Cultural Perspective; P.P.Soucek Conjugal Rights Versus Class Prerogatives: A Divorce Case in Mamluk Cairo; C.F.Petty Invisible Women: Residents of Early Sixteenth-Century Istanbul; Y.J.Seng 'She Is Trouble...and I Will Divorce Her': Orality, Honor, and Representation in the Ottoman Court of `Aintab; L.Peirce Women and the Public Eye in 18th Century Istanbul; F.Zarinebaf-Shahr The 'Jewels of Wonder': Learned Ladies and Princess Politicians in the Provinces of Early Safavid Iran; M.Szuppe The 'Aqa'id al-Nisa': A Glimpse at Safavid Women in Local Isfahani Culture; K.Babyan Women in Safavid Iran: The Evidence of European Travelers; R.W.Ferrier Contributors to the Urban Landscape: Women Builders in Safavid Isfahan and Mughal Shahjahanabad; S.P.Blake Armed Women Retainers in the Zenanas of Indo-Muslim Rulers: The Case of Bibi Fatima; G.R.G.Hambly Private Lives and Public Piety: Women and the Practice of Islam in Mughal India; G.C.Kozlowski Women and the Feminine in the Court and High Culture of Awadh,1720-1856; M.H.Fisher Embattled Begams: Women as Power Brokers in Early Modern India; R.B.Barnett Sitt Nasra Bint `Adlan: A Sudanese Noblewoman in History and Tradition I. S.al-Hasan & N.McHugh
