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Introduction : deciphering Middle Eastern women's history / Nikki R. Keddie
Islam and patriarchy : a comparative perspective / Deniz Kandiyoti
Political action and public example : 'A'isha and the battle of the camel / Denise A. Spellberg
Early Islam and the position of women : the problem of interpretation / Leila Ahmed
Gendering the ungendered body : hermaphrodites in medieval Islamic law / Paula Sanders
Manners and customs of fourteenth-century Cairene women : female anarchy versus male Sharí order in Muslim prescriptive treatises / Huda Lutfi
Class solidarity versus gender gain : women as custodians of property in later medieval Egypt / Carl F. Petry
Women and Islamic education in the Mamluk period / Jonathan P. Berkey.
Ottoman women, households, and textile manufacturing, 1800-1914 / Donald Quataert
The impact of legal and educational reforms on Turkish women / Nermin Abadan-Unat
The dynamics of women's spheres of action in rural Iran / Erika Friedl
Political roles of Aliabad women : the public-private dichotomy transcended / Mary Elaine Hegland
Ties that bound : women and family in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Nablus / Judith E. Tucker
The house of Zainab : female authority and saintly succession in colonial Algeria / Julia Clancy-Smith
The making and breaking of marital bonds in modern Egypt / Beth Baron
Artists and entrepreneurs : female singers in Cairo during the 1920s / Virginia Danielson
Biography and women's history : on interpreting Doria Shafik / Cynthia Nelson.
Islam and patriarchy : a comparative perspective / Deniz Kandiyoti
Political action and public example : 'A'isha and the battle of the camel / Denise A. Spellberg
Early Islam and the position of women : the problem of interpretation / Leila Ahmed
Gendering the ungendered body : hermaphrodites in medieval Islamic law / Paula Sanders
Manners and customs of fourteenth-century Cairene women : female anarchy versus male Sharí order in Muslim prescriptive treatises / Huda Lutfi
Class solidarity versus gender gain : women as custodians of property in later medieval Egypt / Carl F. Petry
Women and Islamic education in the Mamluk period / Jonathan P. Berkey.
Ottoman women, households, and textile manufacturing, 1800-1914 / Donald Quataert
The impact of legal and educational reforms on Turkish women / Nermin Abadan-Unat
The dynamics of women's spheres of action in rural Iran / Erika Friedl
Political roles of Aliabad women : the public-private dichotomy transcended / Mary Elaine Hegland
Ties that bound : women and family in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Nablus / Judith E. Tucker
The house of Zainab : female authority and saintly succession in colonial Algeria / Julia Clancy-Smith
The making and breaking of marital bonds in modern Egypt / Beth Baron
Artists and entrepreneurs : female singers in Cairo during the 1920s / Virginia Danielson
Biography and women's history : on interpreting Doria Shafik / Cynthia Nelson.