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Women in Islamic Biographical Collections: From Ibn Saʿd to Who’s Who

Women in Islamic Biographical Collections: From Ibn Saʿd to Who’s Who Downloaded from http://read.dukeupress.edu/jmews/article-pdf/16/2/202/814039/202ali.pdf by DEEPDYVE INC user on 30 March 2022 REVIEW Ruth Roded Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias, 2018 xviii + 199 pages. ISBN 9781463239305 Reviewed by KECIA ALI Twenty-five years have elapsed since the initial publication of Ruth Roded’s Women in Islamic Biographical Collections: From Ibn Saʿd to Who’s Who (1994), here republished largely unchanged. Following close on the heels of Nikki Keddie and Beth Baron’s (1991) anthology Women in Middle Eastern History and Leila Ahmed’s (1992) germinal Women and Gender in Islam, Roded’s survey of an understudied genre became an essential resource for scholars interested in Muslim women and gender in what the author refers to as “Islamic culture” or “Islamic society.” Roded frames her project with the awareness that “the image of women in Islamic history—in the popular mind, among some scholars, and among Muslims themselves— often falls into one of two extreme views. One view holds that women were downtrodden in Islamic society, and the other that Islam granted women a position unequaled in other religions and cultures” (ix). She attempts to avoid these extremes, defining her project as one of “intellectual curiosity”and “attempting to understand” (vii, ix). Although “in reading the biographies of thousands of http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Middle East Women's Studies Duke University Press

Women in Islamic Biographical Collections: From Ibn Saʿd to Who’s Who

Journal of Middle East Women's Studies , Volume 16 (2) – Jul 1, 2020

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Copyright © 2020 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies
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1552-5864
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1558-9579
DOI
10.1215/15525864-8238202
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Downloaded from http://read.dukeupress.edu/jmews/article-pdf/16/2/202/814039/202ali.pdf by DEEPDYVE INC user on 30 March 2022 REVIEW Ruth Roded Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias, 2018 xviii + 199 pages. ISBN 9781463239305 Reviewed by KECIA ALI Twenty-five years have elapsed since the initial publication of Ruth Roded’s Women in Islamic Biographical Collections: From Ibn Saʿd to Who’s Who (1994), here republished largely unchanged. Following close on the heels of Nikki Keddie and Beth Baron’s (1991) anthology Women in Middle Eastern History and Leila Ahmed’s (1992) germinal Women and Gender in Islam, Roded’s survey of an understudied genre became an essential resource for scholars interested in Muslim women and gender in what the author refers to as “Islamic culture” or “Islamic society.” Roded frames her project with the awareness that “the image of women in Islamic history—in the popular mind, among some scholars, and among Muslims themselves— often falls into one of two extreme views. One view holds that women were downtrodden in Islamic society, and the other that Islam granted women a position unequaled in other religions and cultures” (ix). She attempts to avoid these extremes, defining her project as one of “intellectual curiosity”and “attempting to understand” (vii, ix). Although “in reading the biographies of thousands of

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Journal of Middle East Women's StudiesDuke University Press

Published: Jul 1, 2020

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