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Unveiling the Ideal: A New Look at Early Muslim Women
by Shayan Afzal Khan
Paperback, 2007, 269 pp. Price: RM 28.00 / USD 13.00

SYPNOSIS

While Islam invested both men and women with equal moral agency, an appalling list of wrongs continues to be inflicted on Muslim women today. Digging into the wealth of early Muslim history will unearth inspiring stories of strong and independent women who made a difference to the society of their times. This book revisits the lives of prominent women who lived at the time of Prophet and the ensuing period. Beyond being mothers, wives, and pious Muslims, they were also active in every sphere of community life, from the battlefields to the markeplaces, from political arena to the highest levels of counsel. By peeling away the traditional versions of women's lives that have been highlighted by Muslim historians and religious teachers, this book hopes to add another dimension to their stories, and reval them to be true models for today's Muslim women.

CONTENTS

PROPHET'S WIVES
Khadijah bint Khuwaylid ibn Asad
Saudah bint Zam'a ibn Qays
Aishah bint Abu Bakr
Hafsah bint Umar
Zaynab bint Khuzayma
Umm Salamah or Hind bint Abu Umayya
Zainab bint Jahsh
Juwariyyah or Barrah bint al-Harith
Safiyyah bint Huayy
Umm Habibah or Ramlah bint Abu Sufyan
Maymunah bint al-Harith

WOMEN OF WARFARE
Asma bint Yazid Ansariya
Azda bint Harith
Barakah bint Tha'labah or Umm Ayman
Hamna bint Jahsh
Hind bint Utbah
Safiyyah bint Abd al-Muttalib
Umayya bint Qays
Umm Hakim bint al-Harith ibn Hisham
Umm Sinan al-Aslamiyya
Umm Umara or Nusaybah bint Kab
Zainab bint Ali

WOMEN OF LAW
Habibah bint Sahl ibn Thalaba
Kabsha bint Man Ansariyya
Khansa bint Khudham al-Ansariyya
Khawla bint Thalabah

WOMEN OF LEARNING
Aisha bint Talha
Asma bint Abu Bakr
Asma binrt Umays Khatamiyya
Fatima bint Qays
Khansa bint Amr
Rubayyi bint Muawwidh ibn Afra
Shifa bint Abd Allah
Umm Sa'd or Jamilah bint Sa'd Ansariyya
Umm Waraqah bint Nawfal
Zainab or Barrah bint Abu Salamah

WOMEN IN CHARGE OF THEIR LIVES
Arwa bint Abdul Muttalib
Arwa or Umm Musa
Atika bint Zayd ibn Amr
Durrah bint Abu Lahab
Fatimah bint Hussain
Fatimah bint Muhammad
Layla bint Khutaym
Qayla bint Makhrama al-Tamimiyya
Rayta or Zaynab bint Abd Allah
Sukayna bint Hussain
Umm Fadl or Lubaba bint al-Harith
Umm Hani or Fakhita or Hind bint Abu Talib
Amm Kulsoom bint Uqbah
Umm Salamah