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Some useful literature about women in Islamic history:

Ahmed, Leila. Women and Gender in Islam: Historical Roots of a Modern Debate. New Haven:
Yale University Press, 1992.
Amri, Nelly. La sainte de Tunis : prsentation et traduction de lhagiographie de isha alMannbiyya (m. 665/1267). Paris: Sindbad, 2008
Bewley, Aisha. Muslim Women: A Biographical Dictionary. London: Taha Publishers, 2004
Caswell, Fuad Matthew. The Slave Girls of Baghdad: the Qiyan in the Early Abbasid Era.
London: I.B. Tauris, 2011
Cortese, Delia and Simonetta Calderini. Women and the Fatimids in the World of Islam.
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2006
Davary, Bahar. Women and the Quran: a Study in Islamic Hermeneutics. Lewiston: Edward
Mellen Press, 2009
Dursteler, Eric. Renegade Women: Gender, Identity, and Boundaries in the Early Modern
Mediterranean. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011
Findly, Ellison Banks. Nur Jahan: Empress of Mughal India. New York: Oxford University Press,
1993
Guthrie, Shirley. Arab Women in the Middle Ages: Private Lives and Public Roles. London: Saqi
Books, 2001
Hambly, Gavin R.G. Women in the Medieval Islamic World: Power, Patronage, and Piety. New
York: St Martins Press, 1998.
Hammond, Marle. Beyond Elegy : Classical Arabic Womens Poetry in Context. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2010
Mack, Beverly and Jean Boyd. One Womans Jihad : Nana Asmau, Scholar and Scribe.
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000
Marin, Manuela. Mujeres en Al-Andalus. Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones
Cientificas, 2000

Mernissi, Fatima. Womens Rebellion and Islamic Memory. Atlantic Highlands: Zed Books,
1996.
Mourtada-Sabbah, Nada and Adrian Gully. I am, by God, fit for high positions: On the
Political Role of Women in Al-Andalus, British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies 30 (2003):
183209.
Myrne, Pernilla. Narrative, Gender and Authority in Abbsid Literature on Women. Gteborg :
University of Gothenburg, Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, 2010
Nadwi, Mohammad Akram. Al-Muhaddithat: the Women Scholars in Islam. Oxford: Interface
Publications, 2007
Nashat, Guity and Lois Beck eds. Women in Iran from the Rise of Islam to 1800. Urbana:
University of Illinois Press, 2003
Peirce, Leslie P. Morality Tales : Law and Gender in the Ottoman Court of Aintab. Berkeley:
University of California Press, 2003
Peirce, Leslie P. The Imperial Harem: Women and Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire. New
York: Oxford University Press, 1993.
Perry, Mary Elizabeth. The Handless Maiden: Moriscos and the Politics of Religion in Early
Modern Spain. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005.
Roded, Ruth. Women in Islamic Biographical Collections. Boulder: L. Rienner Publishers, 1994.
Roded, Ruth ed. Women and Islam in the Middle East: a Reader. London/New York: I.B. Tauris,
1999
Ruggles, D. Fairchild ed. Women, Patronage, and Self-representation in Islamic Societies.
Albany: State University of New York Press, 2000
Shatzmiller, Maya. Her Day in Court: Womens Property Rights in Fifteenth-Century Granada.
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2007
Shehadeh, Lamia Rustum ed. Women and War in Lebanon. Gainesville: University of Florida
Press, 1999
Smith, Margaret. Muslim Women Mystics: The Life and Work of Rabia and Other Women
Mystics in Islam. Oxford: Oneworld Publications, 1994

Smith, Margaret. Rabia the Mystic. Lahore: Hijra International Publishers, 1983
Sonbol, Amira El-Azhary ed. Beyond the Exotic: Womens Histories in Islamic Societies.
Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2005
Spectorsky, Susan. Women in Classical Islamic Law: a Survey of the Sources. Leiden: Brill,
2010
Spellberg, Denise. Politics, Gender, and the Islamic Past : The Legacy of Aisha bint Abi Bakr.
New York: Columbia University Press, 1994
Thys-Senocak, Lucienne. Ottoman Women Builders: The Architectural Patronage of Hadice
Turhan Sultan. London: Ashgate, 2006.
Tucker, Judith. In the House of the Law: Gender and Islamic Law in Ottoman Syria and
Palestine. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998
Tucker, Judith. Women in Nineteenth-Century Egypt. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
1985
Yermolenko, Galina. Roxolana: The Greatest Empresse of the East,Muslim World 95 (2005):
231248.
Zilfi, Madeline ed. Women in the Ottoman Empire : Middle Eastern Women in the Early Modern
Era. Leiden: Brill, 2007

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