A history of Islam in 21 women /

Kamaly, Hossein,

A history of Islam in 21 women / Book / Hossein Kamaly. - viii, 261 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Beginning in seventh-century Mecca and Medina, 'A History of Islam in 21 Women' takes us around the globe, through eleventh-century Yemen and Khorasan, and into sixteenth-century Spain, Istanbul and India. From there to nineteenth-century Persia and the African savannah, to twentieth-century Russia, Turkey, Egypt and Iraq, before reaching present day London. From the first believer, Khadija, and the other women who witnessed the formative years of Islam, to award-winning mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani in the twenty-first century, Hossein Kamaly celebrates the lives and groundbreaking achievements of these extraordinary women in the history of Islam --

All.

9781786076434 (hardback)

2020478253


Women in Islam--History.
Muslim women.
Muslim women--History.
Islam--History.

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