1-20 of 21 Search Results for

caliph

Follow your search
Access your saved searches in your account

Would you like to receive an alert when new items match your search?
Close Modal
Sort by
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (3): 306–322.
Published: 01 November 2016
...Edith Szanto Abstract During the onslaught of the Islamic caliphate on Kobanî, Syria, media outlets across the globe broadcast pictures of brave and often unveiled Kurdish women fighting the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS), a quintessentially male force of destruction. The images...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2005) 1 (3): 1–19.
Published: 01 November 2005
... and clichés, this paper undertakes a more detailed investigation of harems at a particular historical moment, tenth-century Baghdad. Th e fi rst part of this paper discusses the harem of Caliph al-Muqta- dir (908-932), analyzing its structure as well as the social, economic...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (2): 152–173.
Published: 01 July 2018
... urination indicated a functioning sexual organ (al-Halabi 1989 , 334; al-Quduri 1953 , 213; al-Sarakhsi 2001b , 115–16; al-Tusi 1855 ). The earliest such case is attributed to the Rashidun caliph ʿAli (d. 661), who had been approached by a group of five brothers whose father had died, leaving...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2017) 13 (1): 132–134.
Published: 01 March 2017
... harlots of Hadramaut. These women are said to have openly celebrated when they heard that the prophet Muhammad was dead, and the first caliph Abu Bakr reportedly ordered that they be cruelly punished. This tale expresses fears about the possible resurgence of paganism, uses female figures to represent...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2007) 3 (2): 112–115.
Published: 01 July 2007
.... With the abolition of the sultanate and the end of the caliphate in 1923–24 came a shift in legisla- tive power from religious institutions to representative parliamentarian- JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EAST WOMEN’S STUDIES Vol. 3, No. 2 (Spring 2007). © 2007...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2013) 9 (3): 148–150.
Published: 01 November 2013
... and as an institution in legal texts, arts, architecture, and literature. This section starts with Nadia Maria El Cheikh’s sketch of harems as political institutions and power structures where women are active in social, pub- lic, and economic life; she contrasts the complexity of the caliphal harem...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2005) 1 (2): 1–24.
Published: 01 July 2005
... endured suffering at the hands of Ali’s (Sunni) rivals. According to David Pinault (1998:70), Abu Bakr, the first caliph of Islam, impeded her from inheriting property, while `Umar, Abu Bakr’s successor, in a dispute with Ali over the question of succes- sion, opened the door...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2016) 12 (2): 268–274.
Published: 01 July 2016
... of the commemorative movement. The black silhouettes also represent Zaynab’s moving and expressive narrations at Umayyad caliph Yazid Bin Muʾawiya’s 5 court, since the narration and performative rituals marked the evolution of Shiʾite rituals. By representing the black silhouettes as disembodied, I wanted...
FIGURES
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2011) 7 (2): 1–26.
Published: 01 July 2011
... many important parts of the biography of ‘A’isha, who lived a long and a productive life after the death of the Prophet. Abdel Rahman briefly mentioned how this impor- tant woman became a religious authority on the Hadith and led an army against ‘Ali ibn ‘Abi Talib, the fourth caliph...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2005) 1 (3): 116–122.
Published: 01 November 2005
... the Balkan Wars and World War I, and an actor of suffi cient importance in the national resistance movement and Turkish War of Independence to have been sentenced to death in absentia along with Mustafa Kemal 118  JOURNAL OF MIDDLE EAST WOMEN’S STUDIES (Ataturk) by the sultan-caliph’s government...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2021) 17 (3): 466–472.
Published: 01 November 2021
... that united them, thus overshadowing national and ethnic allegiances. Queen Suraya’s reign, which lasted until 1929, took place during a transitional time in Middle Eastern and South Asian politics. In 1924 the end of the Ottoman caliphate, whose existence had driven pan-Islamist organizing over...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2010) 6 (2): 115–122.
Published: 01 July 2010
..., Gasser Hathout and Quraishi both pointed to precedent, Hathout stating that the Prophet oft en asked women to lead prayers and Quraishi highlighting instances of women leading battles during the expansion of the Islamic empire and engaging in public argument with Caliph Umar in the mosque...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies 11575548.
Published: 10 January 2025
... of an unnamed Arab man in Albert Camus s (1942) L étranger (The Stranger). At the time, the connections between the attitude of the West and the dehumanization of Oriental people seemed nebulous, since our history manuals essentialized the past of kingdoms and caliphates while hushing the geopolitical...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2006) 2 (2): 60–85.
Published: 01 July 2006
... the Arab armies of the Caliphate. To defeat them, she had but to embark on a scorched-earth campaign. Ac- cording to some accounts, she died fighting the invaders, sword in hand. Other accounts say she committed suicide rather than being taken by the enemy (Hannoum 2001:120). Centuries...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2010) 6 (2): 31–58.
Published: 01 July 2010
... of Mu‘awiya and became caliph aft er his father’s death. Th e collective sorrow felt by Shi‘a regarding not only these deaths but also the tragic ways in which they occurred is combined with hope for a future fi lled with justice, and the tone and mood of religious func- tions stem in part from...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies 11575457.
Published: 10 January 2025
... aljj was born in 1258, the year the Mongols sacked Baghdad, and as Nahyan Fancy and Monica H. Green attest, a signi cant plague outbreak occurred. He lived in a changed world: the Abbasid Caliphate, while still in existence, no longer ruled from Baghdad, and the plague had reemerged by the 1330s...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2015) 11 (2): 161–178.
Published: 01 July 2015
... caliphs who moved the political and cultural center of the Islamic empire from Damascus eastward to Baghdad” (1). As an analogy to ensure that the three realms are not mistaken to function independently, Lacan uses the Borromean knot, “named after an Italian noble family—Borromeo—who used the formula...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2018) 14 (2): 174–192.
Published: 01 July 2018
... experienced men on the war front. The standard-bearer of youthful excellence was the Shiʿi martyr who lived as closely as possible to the example of Imam Hussein (Surdykowska 2012 , 105). Early on, news accounts represented the Iran-Iraq war as an extension of the medieval battle between the caliph Yazid...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2013) 9 (2): 32–57.
Published: 01 July 2013
... occupations.6 The novel was published in serial in the nationalist Ikdam newspaper in the summer of 1922 (June 6-August 11), just months before the abolishment of the Otto- man Islamic caliphate. In 1923, the novel appeared in book form (in the Ottoman script). The English version...
Journal Article
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2024) 20 (3): 270–288.
Published: 01 November 2024
... . “ The Caliphate, the Clerics, and Republicanism in Turkey and Iran: Some Comparative Remarks .” In Men of Order: Authoritarian Modernization under Atatürk and Reza Shah , edited by Atabaki Touraj and Zürcher Eric J. , 44 – 64 . London : Tauris . Atabaki Touraj . 2014 . “ Contesting...