A Feminist Interpretation of Women's Rights in Islam _Fatima Mernissi

Veil and the Male Elite

A Feminist Interpretation of Women's Rights in Islam (1991)

Fatima Mernissi

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Pages 235

Preface to the English Edition

Acknowledgments

Map of Arabia at the Time of the Hejira

Introduction

PART I Sacred Text as Political Weapon

I  The Muslim and Time

2 The Prophet and Hadith

3 A Tradition of Misogyny (1)

4 A Tradition of Misogyny (2)

PART II Medina in Revolution: The Three Fateful Years

5 The Hijab, the Veil

6 The Prophet and Space

7 The Prophet and. Women

8 Umar and the Men of Medina

9 The Prophet as Military Leader

10 The Hijab Descends on Medina

Conclusion

Notes

APPENDICES

Appendix I Sources

Appendix 2 Chronology

Index