| Contents |
Becoming visible : medieval Islamic women in historiography and history / Gavin R. G. Hambly -- Three queens, two wives, and a goddess : the roles and images of women in Sasanian Iran / Jenny Rose -- Women in pre-Islamic central Asia : the Khātūn of Bukhara / Richard N. Frye -- Zaynab bint ʻAlī and the place of the women of the households of the first imāms in Shīʻite devotional literature / David Pinault -- The bold and the beautiful : women and 'fitna' in the 'sīrat dhāt al-himma' : the story of Nūrā / Remke Kruk -- Ṣayyida Ḥurra : the Ismaʻīlī Ṣulayḥid queen of Yemen / Farhad Daftary -- Women's lamentations as protest in the 'Shāhnāma' / Olga M. Davidson -- Heroines and others in the heroic age of the Turks / Geoffrey Lewis -- Female piety and patronage in the medieval 'Ḥajj' / Marina Tolmacheva -- Sulṭān Raḍiyya bint Iltutmish / Peter Jackson -- Tīmūrid women : a cultural perspective / Priscilla P. Soucek -- Conjugal rights versus class prerogatives : a divorce case in Mamlūk Cairo / Carl F. Petry -- Invisible women : residents of early sixteenthh-century Istanbul / Yvonne J. Seng -- "She is trouble...and I will divorce her" : orality, honor, and representation in the Ottoman court of ʻAintab / Leslie Peirce -- Women and the public eye in eighteenth-century Istanbul / Fariba Zarinebaf-Shahr -- The 'jewels of wonder' : learned ladies and princess politicians in the provinces of early Ṣafavid Iran / Maria Szuppe -- The 'ʻAqāʾīd al-nisāʾ' : a glimpse at Ṣafavid women in local Iṣfāhanī culture / Kathryn Babayan -- Women in Ṣafavid iran : the evidence of European travelers / Ronald W. Ferrier -- Contributors to the urban landscape : women builders in Ṣafavid Isfahan and Mughal Shahjanabad / Stephen P. Blake -- Armed women retainers in the zenanas of Indo-Muslim rulers : the case of Bībī Fāṭima / Gavin R. G. Hambly -- Private lives and public piety : women and the practice of Islam in Mughal India / Gregory C. Kozlowski -- Women and the feminine in the court and culture of Awadh, 1722-1856 / Michael H. Fisher -- Embattled begams : women as power brokers in early modern India / Richard P. Barnett -- Sitt Naṣra bint ʻAdlān : a Sudanese noblewoman in history and tradition / Idris Salim al-Hasan and Neil McHugh. |
