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

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Book Review| July 01 2020 Women in Islamic Biographical Collections: From Ibn Saʿd to Who’s Who Women in Islamic Biographical Collections: From Ibn Saʿd to Who’s Who. Roded, Ruth. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias, 2018. xviii + 199 pages. isbn 9781463239305. Kecia Ali Kecia Ali KECIA ALI is professor of religion and chair of the Religion Department at Boston University. Her research ranges from Islam’s formative period to the present and focuses on Islamic law, gender and sexuality, and religious biography. She is author of Marriage and Slavery in Early Islam (2010) and Sexual Ethics and Islam: Feminist Reflections on Qurʾan, Hadith, and Jurisprudence (2nd ed., 2016). Contact: ka@bu.edu. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (2020) 16 (2): 202–205. https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-8238202 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Email Permissions Search Site Citation Kecia Ali; Women in Islamic Biographical Collections: From Ibn Saʿd to Who’s Who. Journal of Middle East Women's Studies 1 July 2020; 16 (2): 202–205. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-8238202 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter Books & JournalsAll JournalsJournal of Middle East Women's Studies Search Advanced Search 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... Copyright © 2020 by the Association for Middle East Women’s Studies2020 You do not currently have access to this content.