Librarians, rebels, property owners, slaves
Women in al-Andalus
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2179033 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kamila Shamsie |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 178-188 |
| Publication date | 2016-03-03 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Postcolonial Writing (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1744-9855 • E-ISSN: 1744-9863 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17449855.2016.1164968 |
| OpenAlex | W2464800623 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 6 |
This article argues that a great deal of the writing about women in al-Andalus is obscured either by patriarchal narratives or by a skewed Islam versus the west argument in which al-Andalus is made to stand in for one or the other to further a political agenda. Even so, the biographical dictionaries, fatwas, poems and other sources that exist allow at least a partial picture of women’s lives to emerge. Through considering the lives of two women – Lubna of Cordoba, a secretary/copyist who may also have been a slave, and Wallada bint al-Mustakfi, a poet and woman of property – it is possible both to see the severe limitations placed on women in al-Andalus and to consider their relative freedom and options. The paramount issue is one of inheritance, and property rights
Archaeology · Argument (complex analysis · Art · Epistemology · Genealogy · Inheritance (genetic algorithm · Islam · Literature · Narrative · Poetry · Political science · Politics · Property (philosophy · Property rights · Sociology · Hispanic-African Historical Relations · Islamic Finance and Banking Studies · Islamic Studies and History · Gender Studies · History · Law · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2023 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |