Leila Ahmed

'Women and Gender in Islam'

Bog | Engelsk

A classic, pioneering account of the lives of women in Islamic history, republished for a new generation This pioneering study of the social and political lives of Muslim women has shaped a whole generation of scholarship. In it, Leila Ahmed explores the

'A Quiet Revolution'

Bog | Engelsk

Aprobing study of the veil's recent returnfrom one of the world's foremost authorities on Muslim womenthat reaches surprising conclusions about contemporary Islam's place in the West today In Cairo in the 1940s, Leila Ahmed was raised by a gen