Gender studies, gender groups

Pfluger-Schindlbeck, Ingrid

Verwandtschaft, Religion und Geschlecht im Aserbaidschan

The book relies on a 15months field research in an Azerbaijan village and treats gender spe-cific ideologies in the two domains of kinship and religion. It is shown, that the...

Hartman, Michelle

Jesus, Joseph and Job

Reading Rescriptings of Religious Figures in Lebanese Women’s Fiction

Joseph, Jesus and Job are all immediately recognizable religious figures in both Christianity and Islam who have been incorporated into a range of artistic and literary projects...

Lauré al-Samarai, Nicola

Die Macht der Darstellung

Gender, sozialer Status, historiographische Re-Präsentation: Zwei Frauenbiographien aus der frühen Abbasidenzeit

͑Ulayya bint al-Mahdī (160−210/ 777−825), the younger sister of the Caliph Hārūn al-Rashīd, and ͑Arīb (181−277/ 797−890), a first enslaved, later manumitted woman, are...