Denise A Spellberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 5442924 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Denise A Spellberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Denise A |
| FAMILY NAME | Spellberg |
| SIGNATURE | SPELLBERG D A |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at Austin |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Nadia Maria El-Cheikh. Women, Islam, and Abbasid Identity
In this slim volume of 121 prose pages, Nadia Maria El-Cheikh argues that “gender-related and sexual imaginings play an important function in self-construction projects, and this is especially true in Islamic history” (3). No argument there, especially at a time when for some scholars in the medieval field the category of “gender” remains anathema. Nor is there much doubt in the extant scholarly literature that “the late Umayyad and Abbasid perio…
Islam in America
In July of 2006, I published an article in the journal Eighteenth Century Studies that I trust none of you ever read. Why should you? Eighteenth-Century Studies is not a venerable site for the study of the Middle East or Islam. However, it was the journal where I first considered a question in early American history that has since gained some currency in contemporary American political discourse. The question: “Could a Muslim be president?”
The Authoritative and Authoritarian in Islamic Discourses
Politics, Gender, and the Islamic Past
Writing the Unwritten Life of the Islamic Eve
Western scholars have long studied Jewish and Christian influence in shaping early Islamic tradition, but almost none of them has considered Eve's transformation as a critical part of the “genesis” of an Islamic historical framework and the evolution of its gender categories. I trace the transformation of the wife of Adam from the revelation contained in the Qurʾan and note the abrupt and distinct changes wrought upon this Qurʾanic persona in pos…
Niżām Al‐mulk's Manipulation of Tradition ‘Ā'isha and the Role of Women in the Islamic Government
Writing the Unwritten Life of the Islamic Eve
Western scholars have long studied Jewish and Christian influence in shaping early Islamic tradition, but almost none of them has considered Eve's transformation as a critical part of the “genesis” of an Islamic historical framework and the evolution of its gender categories. I trace the transformation of the wife of Adam from the revelation contained in the Qurʾan and note the abrupt and distinct changes wrought upon this Qurʾanic persona in pos…
Niżām Al‐mulk's Manipulation of Tradition ‘Ā'isha and the Role of Women in the Islamic Government
Niżām Al‐mulk's Manipulation of Tradition ‘Ā'isha and the Role of Women in the Islamic Government
Writing the Unwritten Life of the Islamic Eve
Western scholars have long studied Jewish and Christian influence in shaping early Islamic tradition, but almost none of them has considered Eve's transformation as a critical part of the “genesis” of an Islamic historical framework and the evolution of its gender categories. I trace the transformation of the wife of Adam from the revelation contained in the Qurʾan and note the abrupt and distinct changes wrought upon this Qurʾanic persona in pos…
Politics, Gender, and the Islamic Past
The Authoritative and Authoritarian in Islamic Discourses
Islam in America
In July of 2006, I published an article in the journal Eighteenth Century Studies that I trust none of you ever read. Why should you? Eighteenth-Century Studies is not a venerable site for the study of the Middle East or Islam. However, it was the journal where I first considered a question in early American history that has since gained some currency in contemporary American political discourse. The question: “Could a Muslim be president?”
Nadia Maria El-Cheikh. Women, Islam, and Abbasid Identity
In this slim volume of 121 prose pages, Nadia Maria El-Cheikh argues that “gender-related and sexual imaginings play an important function in self-construction projects, and this is especially true in Islamic history” (3). No argument there, especially at a time when for some scholars in the medieval field the category of “gender” remains anathema. Nor is there much doubt in the extant scholarly literature that “the late Umayyad and Abbasid perio…
Islam (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Islamic Studies and History (5 works) · History (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Theology (3 works) · Archaeology and Historical Studies (2 works) · Art (2 works)