Women and Gender in Islam: Historical Roots of a Modern Debate by Leila Ahmed

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

Leila Ahmed

320 pages first pub 1992 (editions)

nonfiction feminism history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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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 A...

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