Within The Purdah
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Author | : Alison Wearing |
Publisher | : Picador |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2014-04-15 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 1466868333 |
The beautifully written travel memoir of a Western woman's journey in Iran Honeymoon in Purdah is a book of sketches gathered over the course of one woman's journey in Iran. Through her, we meet the ordinary and extraordinary people of Iran--men and women whose lives extend beyond Western news stories of kidnappings, terrorism, and Islamic fundamentalism. Peppered with accounts of Iran's Islamic Revolution and political analyses of the country, Honeymoon in Purdah is a departure from our conventional perception of Iran. Alison Wearing give Iranians the chance to wander beyond headlines and stereotypes and in so doing, reveals the poetry of their lives.
Author | : Iqbalunnissa Hussain |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2019-06-20 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780199407569 |
Originally published in 1944 by Hosali Press, Bangalore, this book is believed to be one of the first full-length English language novel by an Indian Muslim woman in the pre-Partition era. It has clear links with the biting criticism in the feminist Urdu fiction of writers such as Ismat Chughtai and Rashid Jahan. It mounts a scathing attack on the traditional systems of purdah and polygamy in which a man is treated as a virtual god and women, who are often barely literate, as chattel. Through its ironic tone, the novel demonstrates the corrupting influence of this patriarchal system and its power to warp the lives of the women who live under it. For this historically significant work, Jessica Berman of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA, has written the Introduction and provided contextual footnotes for the text. Also included are essays by literary critic Muneeza Shamsie (International Advisory Board, Journal of Postcolonial Writing) and academics, Suvir Kaul (University of Pennsylvania) and Arif Zaman (London School of Business and Management).
Author | : Syed Abul ʻAla Maudoodi |
Publisher | : Library of Islam, Limited |
Total Pages | : 223 |
Release | : 1991-01-01 |
Genre | : Muslim women |
ISBN | : 9780934905008 |
Author | : Cornelia Sorabji |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 1901 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
Cornelia Sorabji (1866-1952) was a pioneer in the tradition of Indian-Parsee women's literature in English. This collection of Sorabji's short stories reflects her fascination with orthodox Hindu women and her frustrated feminist ambitions to liberate them from their enforced or self-willeddomesticity.
Author | : David G. Mandelbaum |
Publisher | : University of Arizona Press |
Total Pages | : 178 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780816514007 |
Hindus and Muslims of northern South Asia share the belief that women should seclude themselves from men and that men must supervise the conduct of women so that their behavior will not sully men's honor. While these practices are well known, until now no book has attempted to explain why they are so crucially important to so many people.
Author | : Hanna Papanek |
Publisher | : Delhi : Chanakya Publications |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Burqas (Islamic clothing) |
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Author | : Bal Ram Nanda |
Publisher | : South Asia Books |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Women |
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Author | : Imtiaz Dharker |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 166 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : |
An anguished god surveys a world stricken by fundamentalism in these powerful poems by a writer whose cultural experience spans three countries: Pakistan, the country of her birth, and Britain and India, her countries of adoption. Her main themes are drawn from a life of transitions: childhood, exile, journeying, home, displacement, religious strife and terror, and latterly, grief. She is also an accomplished artist, and all her collections are illustrated with her drawings, which form an integral part of her books. Postcards from god was her first book from Bloodaxe. It combines two collections published separately in India, Purdah (1989) and Postcards from god (1994). In Purdah she memorialises the betweenness of a traveller between cultures, exploring the dilemmas of negotiation among countries, lovers, children. Postcards from god meditates upon disquietudes in the poet's chosen society: its sudden acts of violence, its feuds and insanities, forcing her into a permanent wakefulness that fits her eyes with glass lids. If the poems collected in Purdah are windows shuttered upon a private world, those gathered into Postcards from god are doorways leading out into the lanes and shanties where strangers huddle, bereft of the tender grace of attention.
Author | : Leila Ahmed |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2021-03-16 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0300258178 |
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 historical roots of contemporary debates, ambitiously surveying Islamic discourse on women from Arabia during the period in which Islam was founded to Iraq during the classical age to Egypt during the modern era. The book is now reissued as a Veritas paperback, with a new foreword by Kecia Ali situating the text in its scholarly context and explaining its enduring influence. “Ahmed’s book is a serious and independent-minded analysis of its subject, the best-informed, most sympathetic and reliable one that exists today.”—Edward W. Said “Destined to become a classic. . . . It gives [Muslim women] back our rightful place, at the center of our histories.”—Rana Kabbani, The Guardian
Author | : Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
A Simple And Absorbing Narrative Of The Life And Times Of Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah. The Account Covers The Days Of The British Raj And Its Aftermath.