Women and the Fatimids in the World of Islam (Record no. 1383)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
ISBN 9780195474640
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 305.48697
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Personal name Cortese, Delia and Calderini, Simonetta
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Women and the Fatimids in the World of Islam
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication Karachi
Name of publisher Oxford University Press
Year of publication 2006
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Number of Pages xvii,269 Pages
Other physical details 15x23 cm
-- PB
500 ## - GENERAL NOTE
General note Delia Cortese teaches Religious Studies at Middlesex University, London and is the author of Arabic Isma'ili Manuscripts: The Zahid Ali Collection and Isma'ili and Other Arabic Manuscripts.

Simonetta Calderini teaches Islamic Studies at Roehampton University in London and has contributed to the Encyclopedia of the Qur'an, Christianity and Islam, and Religious and Political Authority in Judaism.
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Formatted contents note Include Figures, Abbreviations, Appendices, Bibliography and Index.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc This first full-length study of women and the Fatimids is a groundbreaking work investigating an unexplored area in the field of Islamic and medieval studies.
The authors have unearthed a wealth of references to women, thus re-inscribing their role in the history of one of the most fascinating Islamic dynasties, the only one to be named after a woman. At last some light is thrown on the erstwhile silent and shadowy figures of women under the Fatimids which gives them a presence in the history of women in medieval and pre-modern dynasties.
Basing their research on a variety of sources from historical works to chronicles, official correspondence, documentary sources and archaeological findings, the authors have provided a richly informative analysis of the status and influence of women in this period. Their contribution is explored first within the context of Isma'ili and Fatimid genealogical history, and then within the courts in their roles as mothers, courtesans, wives and daughters, and as workers and servants. Throughout the book comparison is drawn with the status and roles of women in earlier, contemporary and subsequent Islamic as well as non-Islamic courts.
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Topical Term Muslim women
-- Muslim women--Social conditions
-- Manners and customs
-- Muslim women--Social life and customs
-- Egypt
-- Africa, North
-- Fatimites
-- Social conditions
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Holdings
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    Non-fiction Garrison Public Library Multan Garrison Public Library Multan General Stacks 2016-11-25 MSL 495.00 305.48697 C787W 2006 16022 Books

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