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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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Brill
2016
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Hawwa
Year: 2016, Volume: 14, Issue: 3, Pages: 239-250 |
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Islam
Arabia
Mecca
pre-modern
women
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