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.
297.082
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.
297.082