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AuthorAl-Fassi, Hatoon Ajwad
Available date2021-06-20T06:11:00Z
Publication Date2016
Publication NameHawwa
ResourceScopus
ISSN15692078
URIhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15692086-12341314
URIhttp://hdl.handle.net/10576/20718
AbstractThe 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 on the women of the city. This note turns scholarly attention on such fifteenth and sixteenth century works as Taqi al-Din al-Fassi's (d. 1429) eight volume Al-'Iqd al-Thamin fi Tarikh al-Balad al-Amin, which dedicates a volume to women, in an effort to continue the scholarly appraisal of women's lives in Muslim societies. Reading such important sources shows how women actively participated in the public life of the city, including its intellectual circles, contrary to Orientalist stereotypes. By exploring the multiple roles of Meccan women in the fifteenth century, the hope is to prompt further study of their significance and its historical implications.
Languageen
PublisherBrill Academic Publishers
SubjectArabia
Islam
Mecca
pre-modern
women
TitleA Note on Meccan Women in the Fifteenth Century
TypeArticle
Pagination239-250
Issue Number3
Volume Number14
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