Forgotten Queens of Islam by Fatema Mernissi

Forgotten Queens of Islam

Fatema Mernissi

240 pages first pub 1990 (editions)

nonfiction feminism history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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When Benazir Bhutto became prime minister of Pakistan in 1988, many claimed that it was a blasphemous assault on Islamic tradition since no Muslim state, critics alleged, had ever been governed by a woman. But Fatima Mernissi examined fifteen cent...

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