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Kamaly, Hossein, author.

A history of Islam in 21 women / Hossein Kamaly.

London : Oneworld, 2019.

©2019

viii, 261 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Beginning in seventh-century Mecca and Medina, A History of Islam in 21 Women takes us around the globe, through eleventh-century Yemen and Khorasan, and into sixteenth-century Spain, Istanbul and India.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-254) and index.

Women in Islam -- History.

Muslim women.

Muslim women.

Women in Islam.

History.

History of Islam in twenty-one women

Khadija (ca. 560-619): the first believer -- Fatima (ca. 612-633): Prophet Muhammad's flesh and blood -- Aisha (ca. 615-678): "get half of your religion from her" -- Rabia al-Adawiyya (ca. 717-801): the embarrassment of riches, and its discontents -- Fatima of Nishapur (ca. 1000-1088): keeper of the faith -- Arwa of Yemen (ca. 1050-1138): the Queen of Sheba redux -- Terken Khatun (ca. 1205-1281): doing well and doing good -- Shajara'-al-Durr (d. 1257): perils of power, between caliphs and mamluks -- Sayyida al-Hurra of Tétouan (ca. 1492-ca, 1560): the free queen -- Pari Khanum (1548-1578): a golden link in the Safavid chain of command -- Nur Jahan (1577-1645): light of the world -- Safiye Sultan (ca. 1550-ca. 1619): a mother of many kings -- Tajul-Alam Safiatuddin Syah (1612-1675): diamonds are not forever -- Tehereh (ca. 1814-1852): heroine or heretic? -- Nana Asmau (1793-1864): jihad and sisterhood -- Mukhlisa Bubi (1896-1937): educator and jurist -- Halidé Edip (ca. 1884-1964): author of the new Turkey -- Noor Inayat Khan (1914-1944): the anxiety of belonging -- Umm Kulthum (ca. 1904-1975): lodestar of union -- Zaha Hadid (1950-2016): curves in glass and concrete -- Maryam Mirzakhani (1977-2017): the princess of mathematics.

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