Browsing College of Arts & Sciences by Publisher "Brill Academic Publishers"

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    • A Concubine in Early-Modern Egypt: The Example of Nafisa Khatun al-Muradiyya 

      Ibrahim, Nasser A. ( Brill Academic Publishers , 2016 , Article)
      This article portrays the life of Al-Sit Nafisa Khatun al-Muradiyya, originally taken captive in Georgia and sold into slavery in Cairo, who rises from life as a concubine to become the wife of the Mamluk leader Murad Bey ...

    • A Note on Meccan Women in the Fifteenth Century 

      Al-Fassi, Hatoon Ajwad ( Brill Academic Publishers , 2016 , Article)
      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, ...

    • Saudi women and Islamic discourse, selected examples of Saudi feminisms 

      Al Fassi, Hatoon Ajwad ( Brill Academic Publishers , 2016 , Article Review)
      Saudi women entered the realm of writing and language only half a century ago through the genres of both creative and journalistic prose. In this paper, I shall take the example of four Saudi female writers who represent ...