| Inscribing South Asian Muslim Women: An Annotated Bibliogaphy & Research Guide Contributor(s): Aftab, Tahera (Author) |
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ISBN: 9004158499 ISBN-13: 9789004158498 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $193.80 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2007 Annotation: With its trans-historic and comprehensive annotated sources, this volume serves as a kaleidoscope through which the reader glimpses the shifting patterns of the private and the public lives of South Asian Muslim women and guides for further research and exploration. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Reference | Bibliographies & Indexes - Religion | Islam - General - Social Science | Women's Studies |
| Dewey: 016.305 |
| LCCN: 2007029418 |
| Series: Handbook of Oriental Studies: Section 1; The Near and Middle East |
| Physical Information: 1.5" H x 6.73" W x 9.59" (2.62 lbs) 656 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In this volume comprehensive coverage of South Asian Muslim women's lives and their experiences, historically and contemporaneously, fills a serious gap in the existing scholarship regarding variegated patterns of Muslim communities. The careful selection of key sources with annotations makes these women visible by ending their exclusion from historical studies and the contemporary feminist canon. Also, the translated excerpts from Farsi, Urdu and Bengali languages provide a much-needed English-language source base on South Asian Muslim women. What makes this work unique, compared to similar works, is the extent to which it presents sources that were never put together. The work, thus, is no longer just a bibliography; it moves far beyond what a bibliography is ordinarily conceived to be. |