A Note on Meccan Women in the Fifteenth Century

The history of women in Arabia is a relatively new and unexplored area of research and the place of women in Mecca (Makkah), Islam’s holiest city, is particularly shrouded in darkness. From the fifteenth century, however, there has been a stream of biographical works (tabaqat) that shed much light o...

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Main Author: Al-Fassi, Hatoon Ajwad (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2016
In: Hawwa
Year: 2016, Volume: 14, Issue: 3, Pages: 239-250
Further subjects:B Islam Arabia Mecca pre-modern women
Online Access: Volltext (Verlag)

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