Female Power and Religious Change in the Medieval Near East Uriel Simonsohn

Female Power and Religious Change in the Medieval Near East Uriel Simonsohn – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9780192871251,0192871250

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• ISBN 10:0192871250
• ISBN 13:9780192871251
• Author:Uriel Simonsohn

Female Power and Religious Change in the Medieval Near East engages with two levels of scholarly discussion that are all too often dealt with separately in modern scholarship: the Islamization of the Near East and the place of women in pre-modern Near Eastern societies. It outlines how these two lines of inquiry can and should be read in an integrative manner. Major historical themes such as conversion to Islam, Islamization, religious violence, and the regulation of Muslim/non-Muslim ties are addressed and reframed by attending to the relatively hidden, yet highly meaningful, role that women played throughout this period.

Table contents:

1:Contours of Family Dynamics
2:’Even though it be against yourselves, or your parents and kinsmen’ (Q 4:135)-The Prioritization of God over Family
3:Religiously-Mixed Families as Sites of Competing Religious Traditions
4:’No bearer of burdens will bear the burden of another’ (Q 53:38)-The Liminal Position of Women in Religiously-Mixed Families
5:Female Conversion to Islam-Religious Defiance and Feminine Resistance
6:Precarious Gatekeepers-Female Power and Religious Conflict

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