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Women and gender in Islam

Leila Ahmed

  • 304 pages · about 5 hours
  • First published 1992
  • 6 editions
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1 About this book

Explores the historical roots of the debate about women in Islamic societies by tracing the developments in Islamic discourses on women and gender up to the present. The book describes the gender systems in place in the Middle East both before and after the rise of Islam.

Good for readers who want: history and feminism.

  • History
  • Middle east
  • Attitudes
  • Sexism
  • Social conditions
  • Women
  • Feminism
  • Religion

2 About Leila Ahmed

Born 1940

Leila Ahmed (Arabic: لیلى أحمد; born 29 May 1940) is an Egyptian-American scholar of women's studies and religion. In 1992 she published her book Women and Gender in Islam, which is regarded as a pioneering historical analysis of the position of women in Arab Muslim societies. She became the first professor of women's studies in religion at Harvard Divinity School in 1999, and has held the Victor S. Thomas Professor of Divinity chair since 2003.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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