Reading List

Women in Islam:

Ahmed, Leila; "Feminism and Feminist Movements in the Middle East, A Preliminary Exploration: Turkey, Egypt, Algeria, People's Democratic Republic of Yemen," Women's Studies Int. Forum, Vol. 5, No. 2, 1982. (Special Issue on Women in Islam guest editor Aziza al Hibri)

Baffoun, Aliya; "Women and Social Change in the Muslim Arab World," Women's Studies Int. Forum, Vol.5, No.2, 1982.

Dorph, Jan Kenneth; "Islamic Law in Contemporary North Africa: A Study of the Laws of Divorce in the Maghreb," ibid.

al-Hibri, A.; "A Study of Islamic Herstory: Or How Did We Ever Get Into This Mess?" Ibid.

Schimmel, A.; "Women in Mystical Islam,"ibid.

Smith, Jane; "Eve: Islamic Image of Woman," Ibid.

Mernissi, Fatima; "Virginity and Patriarchy," Ibid.

Mernissi, F., "Women's Liberation in Muslim Countries," and "Muslim Women and Fundamentalism," Beyond the Veil.: Male-Female Dynamics in Modern Muslim Society

Saadawi, Nawal; "Women and Islam," Women's Studies Int. Forum, op.cit.

Saadawi, Nawal, "Growing up Female in Egypt," Women and Family in the Middle East: New Voices of Change ed. by E.W. Fernea, (Univ. of Texas Press, 1985)

"Research in the Social Sciences on North African Women," Alya Baffoun Social Science Research and Women in the Arab World; UNESCO. Paris 1984

"Toward a Theoretical Framework for the Study of Women in the Arab World," Amal Rassam in Social Science Research, ibid.

"A Survey of Trends in Social Sciences Research on Women in the Arab World," Soha-Abdel Kader, ibid.

[Waines, David; "Through a Veil Darkly: The Study of Women in Muslim Societies - A Review Article," J. for Comparative Study for Society and History (1982) ]

*Overview: Muslim Feminists

Anees, Munawar Ahmed; "Pathology of Imitation," Inquiry, 1/1987

Badawi, Gamal; "Women in Islam," Islam: Its Meaning and Message, ed. Khurshid Ahmad.

Faruqi, Lamya; "Islamic Traditions and the Feminist Movement: Confrontation or Cooperation?" and, "Women in Qur'anic Society" in Women, Islam and Muslim Societies, L.L.al Faruqi, (Indianapolis: American Trust Publications, 1988)

Haddad, Yvonne; "Feminism in Islam: The Arab Case," Mizan, Vol. II, No.2

Hoffman-Ladd, Valerie; "An Islamic Activist: Zaynab al-Ghazali," Women and Family in the Middle East: New Voices of Change, E.W. Fernea, ed., (Univ. of Texas Press, 1985)

Kabir, Zainab S.; "Muslim Women in the Contemporary World: Challenges and Problems," Al-Nahdah Second Quarter, 1987.

Lemu, Aisha and Heeren, Fatima; Women in Islam (Leicester, UK: Islamic Foundation and Islamic Council of Europe, 1978)

Lemu, Aisha; "Educating the Other Half: No Half Measures," in M.W. Davies and A.K. Pasha, Beyond Frontiers (London and New York: Mansell, 1989)

May, Darlene;"Women in Islam: Yesterday and Today," in Cyril Pullapilly, ed., Islam in Contemporary Society, (Notre Dame, Indiana: Crossroads, 1980)

Islamic Jurisprudence, The Qur'an and the Family: An Islamic Socio-Cultural / Anthropological Perspective

Ahmad, Khurshid; Family Life in Islam (Leicester: UK,: Islamic Foundation, 1977)

Abdelati, H.; The Family Structure in Islam (Indianapolis: American Trust Publications, 1977)

Davies, M.W.; "Islamic Anthropology in Words and Meanings," Knowing One Another: Shaping an Islamic Anthropology, (London: Mansell, 1988) Ch. 6.

Davies, M.W., "Consonance, Concepts and Context," Ibid, Ch. 5.

Esposito, John; "The Sources of Islamic Law," and "A Legal Methodology for Reform," Women in Muslim Family Law, (Syracuse, Syracuse Univ. Press, 1982)

Heeren, Fatima; Family Life in Islam ( Leicester, UK: Islamic Foundation, 1978)

Muhsin-Wadud Amina; Woman in the Qur'an: The Absence of Sex-Role Stereotyping in the Text. Doctoral Dissertation, Univ. of Michigan, 1988)

Schleifer, Aliah; Motherhood in Islam (Camb., UK: Islamic Academy, 1986)

Weeramantry; "Some Basic Islamic Legal Ideas," Islamic Jurisprudence: An International Perspective. (New York, N.Y.: St. Martin's Press, 1988)

Women in Islam:

Baron, Beth; "Unveiling in Early Twentieth Century Egypt: Practical and Symbolic Considerations," Middle Eastern Studies

Bates, Ulku; "Women as Patrons of Architecture in Turkey," in Lois Beck and Nikki Keddie, Women in the Muslim World . Ch.12

Cannon, Byron; "Nineteenth Century Arabic Writings on Women and Society: The Interim Role of the Masonic Press in Cairo-(Al-Lata'if, 1885-1895) Intern'l J. of Middle East Studies,

Gerner-Adams,D.; "The Changing Status of Islamic Women in the Arab World," Arab Studies Quarterly, ASQ, Vol. 1, No. 4 (198 )

Gerami, Shahin; "Orthodox Islam and Egyptian Women: A Survey Analysis," A paper presented for the 84th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Aug. 9-13, 1989.

Hoffman-Ladd, V.; "The Polemics on the Modesty and Segregation of Women in Contemporary Egypt." Int.J Middle East Stud. 19 (1987)

Marsot, AfafLutfi; "The Revolutionary Gentlewomen in Egypt," Women in the Muslim World, op cit., Ch. 13

Philipp, Thomas; "Feminism and Nationalist Politics in Egypt," Ibid., Ch. 14

Rassam, Amal; "Women and the Moral Order: Identity and Change," Peoples and Cultures of the Middle East, Daniel Bates and Amal Rassam, (eds)

Tucker, Judith; "Problems in the Historiography of Women in the Middle East: The Case of Nineteeth Century Egypt," Int. J. Middle East Stud, 15, (1983)

Decline of the Family Economy in Mid-nineteenth Century Egypt," Arab Studies Quarterly, ASQ Vol. 1:3

*Overview: Women in Islam: Tradition, Invisibility and Repression.

Benatia, Farouk; "Some Ideas About Women's Work in Algeria"

Barhoum, M.I.; "Attitudes of University Students Toward Women's Work: The Case of Jordan," Int. J. Middle East Stud., 15 (1983)

Hatem, Mervat; "Toward the Study of the Psychodynamics of Mothering and Gender in Egyptian Families Int. J. Middle East Stud., 19,(1987)

Hoffman-Ladd V.; "Polemics on the Modesty and Segregation of Women in Egypt," Women in the Muslim World edit. by L. Beck and N. Keddie, (Camb. : Harvard Univ. Press, 19

Ramazani, Nesta; "Arab Women in the Gulf," The Middle East Journal, Volume 39, No. 2,Spring, 1985.

Hammam, Mona; "Women and Industrial Work in Egypt: The Chubra El-Kheima Case."Arab Studies Quarterly

Baskin, Judith; "The Separation of Women in Rabbinic Judaism," Women, Religion and Social Change, Yvonne Y. Haddad and B. Findley, ed., (Albany, N.Y: State Univ. of New York Press, 1986)

Darrow, William; "Woman's Place and the Place of Women in the Iranian Revolution," Ibid.

Haddad, Yvonne; "Islam, Women and Revolution in Twentieth Century Arab Thought." Ibid.

Smith, Jane; "Women, Religion and Social Change in Early Islam," Ibid.