000			03992cam a2200601 i 4500
001			u13470
003			SA-PMU
005			20210418125119.0
008			150318s2015 mau b 001 0 eng
010			_a 2015005995
040			_aDLC _beng _erda _cDLC _dYDX _dYDXCP _dBTCTA _dBDX _dOCLCF _dHLS _dZCU _dCHVBK _dCDX _dCOO _dPUL _dTWS _dOCLCQ _dKPS
020			_a9780674736368 _q(alk. paper)
020			_a0674736362 _q(alk. paper)
035			_a(OCoLC)906121709
042			_apcc
043			_aaw-----
050	0	0	_aHQ1170 _b.E45 2015
082	0	0	_a305.48/697 _223
100	1		_aEl-Cheikh, Nadia Maria.
245	1	0	_aWomen, Islam, and Abbasid identity / _cNadia Maria El Cheikh.
264		1	_aCambridge, Massachusetts : _bHarvard University Press, _c2015.
300			_a160 pages ; _c25 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 123-153) and index.
505	0		_aHind bint Utba : prototype of the Jahiliyya and Umayyad woman -- Women's lamentation and death rituals in early Islam -- The hertical within : the Qaramita and the intimate realm -- Beyond borders : gender and the Byzantines -- Fashioning a new identity : women exemplars and the search for meaning.
520			_aWhen 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 central to the process by which the Abbasid caliphate, which ushered in Islam’s Golden Age, achieved self-definition. In most medieval Islamic cultures, Arab Islam stood in opposition to jahl, or the state of impurity and corruption that existed prior to Islam’s founding. Over time, the concept of jahl evolved into a more general term describing a condition of ignorance and barbarism—as well as a condition specifically associated in Abbasid discourse with women. Concepts of womanhood and gender became a major organizing principle for articulating Muslim identity. Groups whose beliefs and behaviors were perceived by the Abbasids as a threat—not only the jahilis who lived before the prophet Muhammad but peoples living beyond the borders of their empire, such as the Byzantines, and heretics who defied the strictures of their rule, such as the Qaramita—were represented in Abbasid texts through gendered metaphors and concepts of sexual difference. These in turn influenced how women were viewed, and thus contributed to the historical construction of Muslim women’s identity. Through its investigation of how gender and sexuality were used to articulate cultural differences and formulate identities in Abbasid systems of power and thought, Women, Islam, and Abbasid Identity demonstrates the importance of women to the writing of early Islamic history. (Publisher).
600	0	7	_aAbbasiden, _d749-1258. _0(DE-588)118830147 _2gnd
650		0	_aMuslim women _xHistory.
651		0	_aIslamic Empire _xHistory _y750-1258.
650		0	_aAbbasids _xHistory.
650		7	_aAbbasids. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst00794211
650		7	_aMuslim women. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01030996
651		7	_aIslamic Empire. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01244134
650		7	_aFrau. _0(DE-588)4018202-2 _2gnd
650		7	_aIslam. _0(DE-588)4027743-4 _2gnd
650		7	_aReligiöse Identität. _0(DE-588)4354651-1 _2gnd
648		7	_a750-1258 _2fast
655		7	_aHistory. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01411628
938			_aBrodart _bBROD _n113069928
938			_aBaker and Taylor _bBTCP _nBK0016859383
938			_aCoutts Information Services _bCOUT _n31359965
938			_aYBP Library Services _bYANK _n12361116
029	1		_aCHBIS _b010585386
029	1		_aCHDSB _b006435134
029	1		_aCHVBK _b339568925
029	1		_aCHVBK _b355840812
942			_cBOOK
994			_aZ0 _bSUPMU
948			_hNO HOLDINGS IN SUPMU - 201 OTHER HOLDINGS
596			_a1 2
999			_c11440 _d11440