[PDF] Sovereign Women In A Muslim Kingdom eBook

Author : Sher Banu A.L Khan
Publisher : Flipside Digital Content Company Inc.
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 15,42 MB
Release : 2018-04-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9813250054

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The Islamic kingdom of Aceh was ruled by queens for half of the 17th century. Was female rule an aberration? Unnatural? A violation of nature, comparable to hens instead of roosters crowing at dawn? Indigenous texts and European sources offer different evaluations. Drawing on both sets of sources, this book shows that female rule was legitimised both by Islam and adat (indigenous customary laws), and provides original insights on the Sultanah's leadership, their relations with male elites, and their encounters with European envoys who visited their court. The book challenges received views on kingship in the Malay world and the response of indigenous polities to east-west encounters in Southeast Asia's Age of Commerce.

Author : Sher Banu A.L. Khan
Publisher : NUS Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 22,14 MB
Release : 2017-05-05
Category : Darussalam (Indonesia)
ISBN : 9814722200

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The Islamic kingdom of Aceh was ruled by queens for half of the seventeenth century. Was female rule an aberration? Unnatural? A violation of nature, comparable to hens instead of roosters crowing at dawn? Indigenous texts and European sources offer different evaluations. Drawing on both sets of sources, this book shows that female rule was legitimised both by Islam and adat (indigenous customary laws), and provides original insights on the Sultanah’s leadership, their relations with male elites, and their encounters with European envoys who visited their court. The book challenges received views on kingship in the Malay world and the response of indigenous polities to east-west encounters in Southeast Asia’s Age of Commerce.

Author : Shahla Haeri
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 32,53 MB
Release : 2020-03-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1107123038

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A cross-cultural and ethno-historical perspective exploring the lives and legacies of several Muslim women rulers from medieval to modern times.

Author : Fatima Mernissi
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 29,71 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816624393

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Mernissi recounts the extraordinary stories of fifteen queen s and reflects on the implications for the ways in which politics is practiced in Islam today, a world in which women are largely excluded form the political domain.

Author : William Monter
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 50,35 MB
Release : 2012-01-24
Category : History
ISBN : 030017327X

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In this lively and pathbreaking book, William Monter sketches Europe's increasing acceptance of autonomous female rulers between the late Middle Ages and the French Revolution. Monter surveys the governmental records of Europe's thirty women monarchs—the famous (Mary Stuart, Elizabeth I, Catherine the Great) as well as the obscure (Charlotte of Cyprus, Isabel Clara Eugenia of the Netherlands)—describing how each of them achieved sovereign authority, wielded it, and (more often than men) abandoned it. Monter argues that Europe's female kings, who ruled by divine right, experienced no significant political opposition despite their gender.

Author : Brian A. Catlos
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 649 pages
File Size : 28,57 MB
Release : 2014-03-20
Category : History
ISBN : 0521889391

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An innovative study which explores how the presence of Muslim communities transformed Europe and stimulated Christian society to define itself.

Author : Ahmet T. Kuru
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 17,25 MB
Release : 2019-08
Category : History
ISBN : 1108419097

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Analyzes Muslim countries' contemporary problems, particularly violence, authoritarianism, and underdevelopment, comparing their historical levels of development with Western Europe.

Author : Ruby Lal
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 24,56 MB
Release : 2018-07-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0393635406

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Finalist for the 2018 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in History "A luminous biography." —Rafia Zakaria, Guardian Four centuries ago, a Muslim woman ruled an empire. Nur Jahan, daughter of a Persian noble and widow of a subversive official, became the twentieth and most cherished wife of the Emperor Jahangir. Nur ruled the vast Mughal Empire alongside her husband, leading troops into battle, signing imperial orders, and astutely handling matters of the state. Acclaimed historian Ruby Lal uncovers the rich life and world of Nur Jahan, rescuing this dazzling figure from patriarchal and Orientalist clichés of romance and intrigue, and giving new insight into the lives of women and girls in the Mughal Empire. In Empress, Nur Jahan finally receives her due in a deeply researched and evocative biography that awakens us to a fascinating history.