Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-325) and index.
Contents:
Index of names. Introduction -- Works by Widad Sakakini -- Problem Statement, Theoretical Approach, and Contents Overview -- Technical Remarks -- Biographical Sketch -- Historical Context -- The Lifelines of Widad Sakakini -- Widad Sakakini's Position in the Literary Field -- Circles of Consecration -- "Feminist Criticism" and " Women's Literature" -- The Transnational Web of Women Interlocutors -- Summary : The Location of Widad Sakakini's Literature -- The Narrative Work -- The Context : The Changing Marriage Market -- Women as Bodies, Women as Partners -- Women's Lines of Escape -- Summary : Man-Hating, Illogical, Ambivalent, Misogynist, or Feminist Plots? -- The Debate about the Prophet's Wives -- The Contexts : The Uses of Early Muslim Women : Bint al-Shati"s Social Position -- The Controversy between Sakakini and Bint al-Shati' -- Muhammad's Pleasures and their Intertextual Relations -- The Images of A'isha and Fatima -- Summary : Opposing Ways of Rewriting the Tradition -- Towards a Gender History of Early Islam? -- The Context : The Historiography of Early Islam -- The Consolidation of the Early Muslim Community -- Interpretation of the Biographies -- Summary : The Controversy as a Conflict between Secular and Islamic Feminism? -- Mobility and Belonging -- A Transnational Biography -- Feminism, Secularism, and Islam -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Works by Widad Sakakini -- Secondary Literature -- Interviews -- Appendix -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Index of names.
Series:
Veröffentlichungen des Instituts für Europäische Geschichte Mainz ; Band 255
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