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Forgotten Queens of Islam

Forgotten Queens of Islam

Mernissi, Fatima

Paperback

IslamGeneral Middle Eastern HistoryWomen's Studies

Publisher Price: $25.50

ISBN10: 0816624399
ISBN13: 9780816624393
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: Jul 30 1997
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.69 Width: 5.78 Depth: 8.83
Language: English
When Benazir Bhutto became prime minister of Pakistan in 1988, many claimed that it was a blasphemous assault on Islamic tradition since no Muslim state, critics alleged, had ever been governed by a woman. But Fatima Mernissi examined fifteen centuries of Islamic history and discovered that the critics were wrong. Recovering the stories of fifteen Islamic queens, this remarkable exploration tells how they ascended the throne, how they governed and exercised their power, and how their forgotten reigns influence the ways in which politics is practiced in Islam today.

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