The Unforgettable Queens of Islam: Succession, Authority, Gender

by Shahla Haeri

Book Overview

In this landmark study, Shahla Haeri offers the extraordinary biographies of several Muslim women rulers and leaders who reached the apex of political systems of their times. Their stories illuminate the complex and challenging imperatives of dynastic succession, electoral competition and the stunning success they achieved in medieval Yemen and India, and modern Pakistan and Indonesia. The written history of Islam and the Muslim world is overwhelmingly...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107554896
• ISBN13: 9781107554894
• Release Date: May 2020
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.4" x 8.9"