Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Foreword vii
4. Acknowledgments xv
5. Introduction 1
6. PART 1 The Pre-Islamic Middle East
7. Chapter 1 Mesopotamia 11
8. Chapter 2 The Mediterranean Middle East 25
9. PART 2 Founding Discourses
10. Chapter 3 Women and the Rise of Islam 41
11. Chapter 4 The Transitional Age 64
12. Chapter 5 Elaboration of the Founding Discourses 79
13. Chapter 6 Medieval Islam 102
14. PART 3 New Discourses
15. Chapter 7 Social and Intellectual Change 127
16. Chapter 8 The Discourse of the Veil 144
17. Chapter 9 The First Feminists 169
18. Chapter 10 Divergent Voices 189
19. Chapter 11 The Struggle for the Future 208
20. Conclusion 235
21. Notes 249
22. Index 280