"Attempts to challenge the virtual exclusion of the male prespective from Middle Eastern studies of gender. The text investigates the ways in which men are acting, reacting and adapting to the structural upheaval of the "traditional" family and to new images of virility and resp…
In the 1820s, Rifāʻa Rāfiʻ al-Ṭahṭāwī, a young Muslim cleric, was a leading member of the first Egyptian educational mission to Paris, where he remained for five years, documenting his observations of European culture. His account, Takhlis al-Ibriz fi Talkhis Bariz, is one of th…
In this study of sexual/gender politics in Islamic society, the author draws on popular source materials to explore the disorienting effect of modernization on Muslim male-female relations and shows us the sexual dynamics of the Muslim world.