Cambridge Companions to Religion - Series page

pp ii-ii

The Cambridge Companion to Women and Islam - Title page

pp iii-iii

Copyright page

pp iv-iv

Contents

pp v-vi

Contributors

pp vii-x

Preface

pp xi-xiii

A Note on Foreign-Language Words

pp xiv-xiv

Introduction

pp 1-32

Part I - Logic of Classical Reasoning

pp 33-144

1 - Women in the Qur’an

pp 41-63

2 - Women’s Inheritance

pp 64-84

3 - Veiling and Restrictions on Sexual Liberty

pp 85-105

4 - Muhammad: The Ideal Man

pp 106-123

5 - Prophet’s Wives: “Mothers of the Believers”

pp 124-144

Part II - Asserting Agency in Faith

pp 145-258

6 - Becoming Salafi

pp 151-173

7 - Joining Political Islam

pp 174-194

8 - Conversions to Islam

pp 195-213

9 - Islamic Feminists’ Approaches

pp 214-233

10 - Women’s Mosques in China

pp 234-258

Part III - Asserting Agency in Socio-Political Life

pp 259-379

11 - Patrons of Art, Architecture, and the Urban Environment

pp 267-295

12 - Women and Political Authority

pp 296-314

13 - Women as Social Activists

pp 315-337

14 - Poets and Writers

pp 338-358

15 - ‘Feminist Spirituality’ as Lived Religion

pp 359-379

Volume Bibliography

pp 380-391

Index

pp 392-412

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