Women and Gender in Islam

Historical Roots of a Modern Debate

Leila Ahmed, Kecia Ali

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Yale University Press
11 May 2021

Middle Eastern history; History of religion; Islam; Gender studies, gender groups; Islamic studies

Series: Veritas Paperbacks

This pioneering study of the social and political lives of Muslim women has shaped a whole generation of scholarship. In it, Leila Ahmed explores the historical roots of contemporary debates, ambitiously surveying Islamic discourse on women from Arabia during the period in which Islam was founded to Iraq during the classical age to Egypt during the modern era. The book is now reissued as a Veritas paperback, with a new foreword by Kecia Ali situating the text in its scholarly context and explaining its enduring influence.

“Ahmed’s book is a serious and independent-minded analysis of its subject, the best-informed, most sympathetic and reliable one that exists today.”—Edward W. Said

“Destined to become a classic. . . . It gives [Muslim women] back our rightful place, at the center of our histories.”—Rana Kabbani, The Guardian

By: Leila Ahmed
Foreword by: Kecia Ali
Imprint: Yale University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 197mm, Width: 127mm, Spine: 2mm
Weight: 272g
ISBN: 9780300257311
ISBN 10: 0300257317
Series: Veritas Paperbacks
Pages: 312
Publication Date: 11 May 2021
Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Leila Ahmed is Victor S. Thomas Professor of Divinity at Harvard Divinity School. Her most recent book, A Quiet Revolution: The Veil’s Resurgence, from the Middle East to America, won the Grawemeyer Award in Religion for 2012. Kecia Ali is a professor of religion at Boston University.

Reviews for Women and Gender in Islam: Historical Roots of a Modern Debate

"""Ambitious and field-defining, Leila Ahmed’s Women and Gender in Islam laid the foundations for decades of scholarship on Muslim history and thought.""—Kecia Ali, Boston University"