A History of Islam in 21 Women

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Hossein Kamaly is Associate Professor of Islamic Studies at Hartford Seminary. A scholar of the Middle East, focusing on the history of ideas, he has previously taught at Barnard College and Columbia University, and is the author of God and Man in Tehran. He lives in New York.

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Beginning in seventh-century Mecca and Medina, A History of Islam in 21 Women takes us around the globe, through eleventh-century Yemen and Khorasan, and into sixteenth-century Spain, Istanbul and India. From there to nineteenth-century Persia and the African savannah, to twentieth-century Russia, Turkey, Egypt and Iraq, before arriving in present-day Europe and America.

From the first believer, Khadija, and the other women who witnessed the formative years of Islam, to award-winning architect Zaha Hadid in the twenty-first century, Hossein Kamaly celebrates the lives and groundbreaking achievements of these extraordinary women in the history of Islam.

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Introduction

1 Khadija (ca. 560 619): The First Believer

2 Fatima (ca. 612 633): Prophet Muhammad s Flesh and Blood

3 Aisha (ca. 615 678): Get Half of Your Religion From Her

4 Rabia al-Adawiyya (ca. 717 801): The Embarrassment of Riches, and its Discontents

5 Fatima of Nishapur (ca. 1000 1088): Keeper of the Faith

6 Arwa of Yemen (ca. 1050 1138): The Queen of Sheba Redux

7 Terken Khatun (ca. 1205 1281): Doing Well and Doing Good

8 Shajarä-al-Durr (d. 1257): Perils of Power, Between Caliphs and Mamluks

9 Sayyida al-Hurra of Tétouan (ca. 1492 ca. 1560): The Free Queen

10 Pari Khanum (1548 1578): A Golden Link in the Safavid Chain of Command

11 Nur Jahan (1577 1645): Light of the World

12 Safiye Sultan (ca. 1550 ca. 1619): A Mother of Many Kings

13 Tajul-Alam Safiatuddin Syah (1612 1675): Diamonds Are Not Forever

14 Tahereh (ca. 1814 1852): Heroine or Heretic?

15 Nana Asmau (1793 1864): Jihad and Sisterhood

16 Mukhlisa Bubi (1869 1937): Educator and Jurist

17 Halidé Edip (ca. 1884 1964): Author of the New Turkey

18 Noor Inayat Khan (1914 1944): The Anxiety of Belonging

19 Umm Kulthum (ca. 1904 1975): Lodestar of Union

20 Zaha Hadid (1950 2016): Curves in Glass and Concrete

21 Maryam Mirzakhani (1977 2017): The Princess of Mathematics

Afterword

Notes

Further Reading

Bibliography

Acknowledgments

Index