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176 pages • missing pub info (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780674736368
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 06 October 2015
Description
When the Abbasids overthrew the Umayyad dynasty in 750 CE, an important element in legitimizing their newly won authority involved defining themselves in the eyes of their Islamic subjects. Nadia Maria El Cheikh shows that ideas about women were c...
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176 pages • missing pub info (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780674736368
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 06 October 2015
Description
When the Abbasids overthrew the Umayyad dynasty in 750 CE, an important element in legitimizing their newly won authority involved defining themselves in the eyes of their Islamic subjects. Nadia Maria El Cheikh shows that ideas about women were c...