Mary Ann Fay
Biographic Data
| ID | 1481651 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mary Ann Fay |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mary Ann |
| FAMILY NAME | Fay |
| SIGNATURE | FAY M A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Morgan State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Introduction
Scholars of slavery in the Islamic world of the Middle East and North Africa arrived as late-comers to the field of slavery studies and have, therefore, inherited a large body of research with various approaches to the subject that have informed the study of slavery in the Islamic world. One of the goals for this collection is to determine where slavery in the Islamic world fits within the global history of slavery and the various models that hav…
Slavery in the Islamic World Its Characteristics and Commonality
1. Chapter 1/Introduction What is Islamic about Slavery in the Islamic World? by Mary Ann Fay -- 2. Chapter Two “What is Islamic about Slavery in Muslim Societies?” Cooper, Concubinage and Contemporary Legacies of ‘Islamic Slavery’ in North, West and East Africa by E. Ann McDougall -- 3. Chapter Three Reading the Hidden History of the Cape: Islam and Slavery in the Making of Race and Sex in South Africa by Gabeba Baderoon -- 4. Chapter Four Frenc…
Modernizing Marriage
Editor’s Note: Kenneth M. Cuno was the recipient of the 2015 Albert Hourani Book Award for Modernizing Marriage at the Middle East Studies Association.Kenneth M. Cuno’s Modernizing Marriage is likely to be the definitive history of marriage in Egypt for a very long time. There are several reasons for this. One is Cuno’s mastery of the archival material related to his study. Another is his ability to provide the social, political, and legal contex…
Amélie Le Renard. A Society of Young Women
Journal Article Amélie Le Renard. A Society of Young Women: Opportunities of Place, Power, and Reform in Saudi Arabia. Get access Amélie Le Renard. A Society of Young Women: Opportunities of Place, Power, and Reform in Saudi Arabia. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2014. Pp. xii, 207. Cloth $85.00, paper $24.95. Mary Ann Fay Mary Ann Fay Morgan State University [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Aca…
Women, Property, and Power in Eighteenth-Century Cairo
Women and War in Lebanon
Edited collection of essays examining the impact of the 1975-90 civil war in Lebanon on women--both as a potent oppressor and as a catalyst for liberation from social strictures. Several essays challenge the assumption that women are pacifists by nature
Auto/Biography and the Construction of Identity and Community in the Middle East
Ranging from the early modern period to the present day, this edited collection uses biography as a window into the history of the Arab-Islamic Middle East. The contributors reinterpret the lives of t
From Concubines to Capitalists
This article shows how property rights granted to women under Islamic law empowered women in the eighteenth century. Elite women exercised their property rights to amass estates of considerable size. Their ownership, inheritance, and management of property as well as the importance of marriage alliances and concubinage to the reproduction of power enhanced women's power within households. Also, women supplied important elements of cohesion, stabi…
Women in the Ottoman Empire
This collection of articles by 14 Middle East historians is a pathbreaking work in the history of Middle Eastern women prior to the contemporary era. The collection seeks to begin the task of reconstructing the history of (Muslim) women's experience in the middle centuries of the Ottoman era, between the mid-seventeenth century and the early nineteenth, prior to hegemonic European involvement in the region and prior to the "modernizing reforms' i…
Mongols and Mamluks
Women and Waqf
ʿUthman Katkhuda, Ibrahim Katkhuda, ʿAbd al-Rahman al-Katkhuda, ʿAli Bey al-Kabir, Muhammad Bey Abu Dhahab, Ibrahim Bey, and Murad Bey will be familiar to students and scholars of Ottoman Egypt as the names of men who were in the forefront of the Mamluk resurgence and the leaders of the bayt , the Qazdughli, that became the dominant household from the mid-18th century to the French invasion of 1798. Less familiar—indeed, almost unknown—are the na…
Women and Waqf
ʿUthman Katkhuda, Ibrahim Katkhuda, ʿAbd al-Rahman al-Katkhuda, ʿAli Bey al-Kabir, Muhammad Bey Abu Dhahab, Ibrahim Bey, and Murad Bey will be familiar to students and scholars of Ottoman Egypt as the names of men who were in the forefront of the Mamluk resurgence and the leaders of the bayt , the Qazdughli, that became the dominant household from the mid-18th century to the French invasion of 1798. Less familiar—indeed, almost unknown—are the na…
Women in the Ottoman Empire
This collection of articles by 14 Middle East historians is a pathbreaking work in the history of Middle Eastern women prior to the contemporary era. The collection seeks to begin the task of reconstructing the history of (Muslim) women's experience in the middle centuries of the Ottoman era, between the mid-seventeenth century and the early nineteenth, prior to hegemonic European involvement in the region and prior to the "modernizing reforms' i…
Mongols and Mamluks
Women and Waqf
ʿUthman Katkhuda, Ibrahim Katkhuda, ʿAbd al-Rahman al-Katkhuda, ʿAli Bey al-Kabir, Muhammad Bey Abu Dhahab, Ibrahim Bey, and Murad Bey will be familiar to students and scholars of Ottoman Egypt as the names of men who were in the forefront of the Mamluk resurgence and the leaders of the bayt , the Qazdughli, that became the dominant household from the mid-18th century to the French invasion of 1798. Less familiar—indeed, almost unknown—are the na…
From Concubines to Capitalists
This article shows how property rights granted to women under Islamic law empowered women in the eighteenth century. Elite women exercised their property rights to amass estates of considerable size. Their ownership, inheritance, and management of property as well as the importance of marriage alliances and concubinage to the reproduction of power enhanced women's power within households. Also, women supplied important elements of cohesion, stabi…
Auto/Biography and the Construction of Identity and Community in the Middle East
Ranging from the early modern period to the present day, this edited collection uses biography as a window into the history of the Arab-Islamic Middle East. The contributors reinterpret the lives of t
Women and War in Lebanon
Edited collection of essays examining the impact of the 1975-90 civil war in Lebanon on women--both as a potent oppressor and as a catalyst for liberation from social strictures. Several essays challenge the assumption that women are pacifists by nature
Women, Property, and Power in Eighteenth-Century Cairo
Modernizing Marriage
Editor’s Note: Kenneth M. Cuno was the recipient of the 2015 Albert Hourani Book Award for Modernizing Marriage at the Middle East Studies Association.Kenneth M. Cuno’s Modernizing Marriage is likely to be the definitive history of marriage in Egypt for a very long time. There are several reasons for this. One is Cuno’s mastery of the archival material related to his study. Another is his ability to provide the social, political, and legal contex…
Amélie Le Renard. A Society of Young Women
Journal Article Amélie Le Renard. A Society of Young Women: Opportunities of Place, Power, and Reform in Saudi Arabia. Get access Amélie Le Renard. A Society of Young Women: Opportunities of Place, Power, and Reform in Saudi Arabia. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2014. Pp. xii, 207. Cloth $85.00, paper $24.95. Mary Ann Fay Mary Ann Fay Morgan State University [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Aca…
Introduction
Scholars of slavery in the Islamic world of the Middle East and North Africa arrived as late-comers to the field of slavery studies and have, therefore, inherited a large body of research with various approaches to the subject that have informed the study of slavery in the Islamic world. One of the goals for this collection is to determine where slavery in the Islamic world fits within the global history of slavery and the various models that hav…
Slavery in the Islamic World Its Characteristics and Commonality
1. Chapter 1/Introduction What is Islamic about Slavery in the Islamic World? by Mary Ann Fay -- 2. Chapter Two “What is Islamic about Slavery in Muslim Societies?” Cooper, Concubinage and Contemporary Legacies of ‘Islamic Slavery’ in North, West and East Africa by E. Ann McDougall -- 3. Chapter Three Reading the Hidden History of the Cape: Islam and Slavery in the Making of Race and Sex in South Africa by Gabeba Baderoon -- 4. Chapter Four Frenc…
History (11 works) · Ancient history (7 works) · Islamic Studies and History (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Archaeology (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Islam (4 works) · Middle East (4 works) · Multiculturalism, Politics, Migration, Gender (4 works) · Art (3 works)