Böcker av Amira Sonbol

Focusing specifically on Jordanian and Palestinian women, Sonbol shows the legal constraints extant in a number of legal codes, namely penal codes that permit violence against Muslim women and personal status laws that require a husband's permission for a woman to work.

This study of modern Egypt aims to open the debate regarding new terms and methods for understanding the Middle East and Islamic societies. Sonbol shows continuity in the division of Egyptian society into two groups: the ""Khassa"" which tried to impose a hegemonic culture, and the opposing ""Amma"".

This groundbreaking collection of essays provides a greater understanding of the history of the Gulf and the Arab world and is of relevance to Muslim women everywhere. Presenting discourses on the life of women in early Islam, women's work and the diversity of their economic contribution, the family, as well as the legal system and laws dealing with women and family from the pre-modern to the modern periods, this is a pioneering collection by leading scholars from Arab and international universities.

This volume introduces new sources for the study of the past and present life of Muslim women that challenge paradigms about the ways in which they""have been studied in the past veiled, exoticised and outside of general women's history. Amira El-Azhary Sonbol and the contributors deconstruct the past and offer fresh new perspectives.