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Forgotten Queens of Islam

Mernissi recounts the extraordinary stories of fifteen queens and reflects on the implications for the ways in which politics is practiced in Islam today, a world in which women are largely excluded form the political domain.

Subject
historypolitics
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 240 pages

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