Women and Islam: Some Recent Books

Badran, Margot. Feminists, Islam, and Nation: Gender and the making of modern Egypt. Princeton University Press, 1996.

Malti-Douglas, Fedwa. Men, Women, and God(s): Nawal El Saadawi and Arab feminist poetics Berkeley: University of Califomia Press, 1996.

Smith, Margaret. Rabi'a the Mystic and Her Fellow Saints: Being the life and teachings of Rabi'a al-'Adawiya Al-Qaysiyya of Basra together with some account of the place of women saints in Islam. Lampetera: Llanerch. 1996.

Stowasser, Barbara Freyer. Women in the Qur'an, Traditions and Interpretation. Oxford: Oxford Univerasity Press, 1966.


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