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

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

Leila Ahmed

352 pages first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction history religion challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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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 ge...

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