A Quiet Revolution: The Veil's Resurgence, from the Middle East to America

by Leila Ahmed

Book Overview

A probing study of the veil's recent return--from one of the world's foremost authorities on Muslim women--that reaches surprising conclusions about contemporary Islam's place in the West today

In Cairo in the 1940s, Leila Ahmed was raised by a generation of women who never dressed in the veils and headscarves their mothers and grandmothers had worn. To them, these coverings seemed irrelevant to both modern life and Islamic piety...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300181434
• ISBN13: 9780300181432
• Release Date: June 2012
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"