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Women and Gender in Islam
Historical Roots of a Modern Debate
This pioneering study of the social and political lives of Muslim women has shaped a whole generation of scholarship. In it, Leila Ahmed explores the historical roots of contemporary debates, ambitiously surveying Islamic discourse on women from Arabia during the period in which Islam was founded to Iraq during the classical age to Egypt during the modern era. The book is now reissued as a Veritas paperback, with a new foreword by Kecia Ali situating the text in its scholarly context and explaining its enduring influence.
About the author
Leila Ahmed was the first professor of Women's Studies in Religion at Harvard University and is now the Victor S. Thomas Professor of Divinity at the university's Divinity School. She is the author of "Women and Gender in Islam" and "A Border Passage: From Cairo to America – A Woman's Journey".
Kecia Ali is a professor of religion at Boston University.
Kecia Ali is a professor of religion at Boston University.