Women and Scriptures in the Arab World - Spring 2009 - Issue 125
Vol. 40 (2016)
The subject of women and scriptures is very important, especially for Arab and Muslim women who are witnessing a phase of religious revivalism, which is keen on redefining Islam in many different ways. Moreover, to raise issues by women on women’s rights in the context of the Arab world opens the discussion for reform and for a new interpretation of religious symbolism, rituals, and traditions.
Book Reviews
Off the Straight Path: Illicit Sex, Law and Community in Ottoman Aleppo / Living Palestine. Family Survival, Resistance, and Mobility under Occupation
Mary Ann Fay, Annelies Moors
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A Different Kind of “Scripture”: Women’s Access to Religious Knowledge Without the Written Word
Julia Droeber
PDFThe Annunciation to Mary, Mother of Jesus, in Medieval Christian and Islamic Art of the Book
Mahmoud Zibawi
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