Women in the Medieval Islamic World: Power, Patronage, and Piety

by Gavin R.G. Hambly

Book Overview

Women often appear invisible in what is widely perceived as the male-oriented society of Islam. Women in the Medieval Islamic World seeks to redress the balance with a series of original essays on women in the pre-modern phase of Islamic history. The reader will encounter here a colorful portrait gallery of rulers, politicians, poets and patrons, as well as some larger than life fictitious females from the pages of Arabic, Persian and Turkish literature...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312210574
• ISBN13: 9780312210571
• Release Date: February 1998
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 566 Pages
• Weight: 1.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 5.9" x 8.6"