Encyclopedia of Women & Islamic Cultures

Volume V: Contents

List of Contributors
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Preface (Suad Joseph)

Arts: Belly Dancers
Overview (Karin van Nieuwkerk)
Arts: Composers
Afghanistan (Veronica Doubleday)
The Caucasus (Aida Huseynova & Nigar Akhundova)
Iran (Ann Lucas)
The Ottoman Empire (Rajna Klaser-Ledoux)
South Asia (Amelia Maciszewski)
Turkey (Derya Senol Iner)
Arts: Dance, Expression and Ritual in the Arab-Islamic world
Central Arab States (Wendy Buonaventura)
Arts: Fiction and Fiction Writers
Afghanistan (Faridullah Bezhan)
The Caucasus (Shouleh Vatanabadi)
Egypt (Mara Naaman)
Iran (Safoura Nourbakhsh)
North Africa (Andrea Flores Khalil)
North America (Samia Serageldin)
Sub-Saharan Africa (Moussa Sow)
Turkey (Hülya Adak)
Arts: Film Directors and Film Stars
The Arab States (Viola Shafik)
Central Asia (Michael Rouland)
Iran (Negin Nabavi)
Sub-Saharan Africa (Beti Ellerson)
Turkey (Petra de Bruijn)
Arts: Folk Dancers and Folk Singers
Afghanistan (Veronica Doubleday)
The Caucasus (Laurel Gray)
Central Asia and Iran (Anthony Shay)
Eastern Europe (Aida Vidan)
The Gulf and Saudi Arabia (Lisa Urkevich)
Morocco (Fatima Chebchoub)
The Ottoman Empire (Arzu Ozturkmen)
South Asia (Jennifer Post)
Sub-Saharan Africa: West Africa (Esailama Diouf)
Turkey (Arzu Ozturkmen)
Arts: Performers and Performing Groups
The Caucasus (Aida Huseynova & Nigar Akhundova)
Central Asia and Afghanistan (Tanya Merchant Henson)
The Gulf and Saudi Arabia (Lisa Urkevich)
Iran (Ameneh Youssefzadeh)
South Asia (Jennifer Post)
Turkey (including the Ottoman period) (Stavros Karayanni)
Arts: Poets and Poetry
Afghanistan (Alexandra Jerome)
The Arab States (Clarissa Burt)
Central Asia (Nurten Kilic-Schubel)
Eastern Europe (Damir Arsenijevic)
Iran: Classical (Firuza Abdullaeva)
Iran: Modern (Heidi Ghomi)
The Ottoman Empire (Kemal Silay)
Sub-Saharan Africa: Swahili Poetry (Ridder Samsom)
Sub-Saharan Africa: West Africa (Beverly Mack)
Turkey (Hande Birkalan-Gedik)
Arts: Popular Culture
Afghanistan (Keith Leitich)
Central Asia (Michael Rouland)
Indonesia (Barbara Hatley)
North America (Saeed Khan)
Southeast Asia, East Asia, Australia and the Pacific (excepting Indonesia) (John Clammer)
Sub-Saharan Afica: Hausa (Graham Furnis)
Tanzania (Siri Lange)
Turkey (Mutlu Binark)
Arts: Remembrances and Narrations
Eastern Europe (Burcu Ellis)
Iran: Diasporic Women (Halleh Ghorashi)
North Africa (Alexander Elinson)
Palestine (Randa Farah)
South Africa (Doria Daniels)
South Asia (Ananya Kabir)
Arts: Storytellers and Raconteurs
Afghanistan (Margaret Mills)
Central Arab States (Nadia Yaqub)
Central Asia (Oidinposha Imamkhodjaeva)
East Africa (Abreham Alemu Fanta)
Iran (Judith Goldstein)
Turkey (Suheyla Saritas)
Sub-Saharan Africa: West Africa (Zainab Jerrett)
Arts: Sung Poetry
Sub-Saharan Africa: West Africa (Aissata Sidikou-Morton)
Arts: Theater
The Arab States (Mona Mikhail)
The Balkans (Sabrina Peric)
Central Asia (Azim Malikov)
Iran (Farah Yeganeh & Torange Yeghiazarian)
The Ottoman Empire (Carole Woodall)
South Asia (Kathryn Hansen)
Sub-Saharan Africa (Jane Plastow)
Turkey (Petra de Bruijn)
The United States (Nathalie Handal)
Arts: Visual Arts and Artists
The Caucasus (Janet Roberts)
Central Arab States (Kirsten Scheid Idriss)
Egypt (Jessica Winegar)
Iran (Sharon Parker)
North Africa (Katarzyna Pieprzak)
The Ottoman Empire (Nancy Micklewright)
South Asia (Deborah Hutton)
Sub-Saharan Africa (Kinsey Katchka)
Sudan (Baqie Muhammad)
Turkey: Modern (Zeynep Yasa Yaman)
Arts: Women Journalists and Women's Press
Central Arab States (Magda Abu-Fadil)
East Africa (Salma Maoulidi)
The Gulf (Naomi Sakr)
Iran (Hossein Shahidi)
South Africa (Gabeba Baderoon)
Turkey (Isik Özel)
Western Europe (Isabelle Rigoni)
Arts: World Music
Overview (Sarah Weiss)

Islam: Critiques of the Impact of the Emergence of Islam on Women
Overview (Alfons Teipen)
Islam: Early Expansion and Women
Central Asia and Eurasia (Isenbike Togan)
South Asia (Sarah Ansari)
Islam: Islam and Modernities
Overview (Amina Jamal)
Islam: Jewish and Muslim Sources, Discourses and Interactions
Overview (Reuven Firestone)
Islam: Saints and Sacred Geographies
Central Asia (Azim Malikov)
The Ottoman Empire (Ethel Sara Wolper)
Mashrek (Michelle Zimney)
North Africa (Michelle Rein)
South Asia (Kelly Pemberton)
Turkey (Hulya Kucuk)

Language, Use by Women
The Caucasus (Ingrid Schindlbeck)
Iran (Zohreh Eslami & Abbass Eslami-Rasekh)
North Africa (Deborah Kapchan)
North America (Loukia Sarroub)
The Ottoman Empire (Zehra Toska)
Turkey (Derya Agis)
Western Europe (Chantal Tetreault)
Yemen (Ianthe Maclagan)

Qur'an: Modern Interpretations
Arabic (Hibba Abugideiri)
Euro-American (Hibba Abugideiri)
Persian (Shahin Gerami & Khadijeh Safiri)
Turkish (modern) (Zehra Arat)
Urdu and other South Asian languages (including English) (Marcia Hermansen)
Qur'an: Qur'an and Early Tafsir
Overview (Andrew Rippin)

Religious Practices: Ablution, Purification, Prayer, Fasting and Piety
Central Asia (Oidinposha Imamkhodjaeva)
Europe (Jeanette Jouili)
The Gulf (Lisa Wynn)
Iran (Ingvild Flaskerud)
North Africa (Willy Jansen)
South Asia (Kelly Pemberton)
Southeast Asia (Zulkarnaini Abdullah)
Turkey (Necmettin Gokkir & Hidayet Aydar)
Sub-Saharan Africa: West Africa (Liza Debevec)
Religious Practices: Conversion
The Arab States (Elizabeth Bishop)
Central Asia (Julia Droeber)
Iran (Kathryn Spellman)
Mexico (Sandra Cañas Cuevas)
North America: US and Canada (Marcia Hermansen)
The Ottoman Empire (Tijana Krstic)
South Africa (Rebekah Lee)
South America (Heba el-Attar)
Southeast Asia (Ryoko Nishii)
Sub-Sarahan Africa: East Africa (Tabea Scharrer)
Western Europe (Karin van Nieuwkerk)
Religious Practices: Obedience and Disobedience in Islamic Discourses
Overview (Kecia Ali)
Religious Practices: Piety
Overview (Marina Tolmacheva)
Religious Practices: Pilgrimage
Overview (Johan Meuleman)
The Caucasus (Ingrid Schindlbeck)
Central Asia (Azim Malikov)
North Africa (Michelle Rein)
South Asia (Syed Akbar Hyder)
Sub-Saharan Africa: West Africa (Eva Evers-Rosander)
Turkey (Mustafa Karatas)
Religious Practices: Preaching and Women Preachers
Arab States (excluding North African and the Gulf) (Lara Deeb)
Central Asia (Oidinposha Imamkhodjaeva)
Egypt (Margaret Rausch)
Iran (Sabine Kalinock)
North Africa (Margaret Rausch)
South Africa (Muhammed Haron)
South Asia (Maimuna Huq)
Sudan (Souad Ali)
Turkey (Yucel Demirer)
Western Europe (Kari Vogt)
Religious Practices: Prophecy and Women Prophets
Overview (Linda Clarke)
Religious Practices: Religious Commemorations
China (Elizabeth Alles)
Eastern Europe (Zilka Spahik-Siljak)
The Gulf and Yemen (Lisa Wynn)
Iran (Sabine Kalinock)
South Africa (Goolam Vahed)
South America: Argentina (Sofia Martos)
South Asia (Kelly Pemberton)
Turkey (Kursad Atalar)
Religious Practices: Waqf
Overview (Zeinab Ali Abul-Magd)
The Arab States (Astrid Meier)
Iran (Babak Rahimi)
The Ottoman Empire (Randi Deguilhem)
South Asia (Claudia Preckel)
Southeast Asia, East Asia, Australia and the Pacific (Dian Masyita)
Religious Practices: Zakat (Almsgiving)
Overview (Ellison Banks Findly)
The Ottoman Empire (Soraya Faroqhi)
South Asia (Claudia Preckel)
Turkey (Servet Bayindir)
Representations: Afterlife Stories
Overview (Jane I. Smith)
Representations: Creation Stories
Overview (Jane I. Smith)
Representations: Dream Literature
Overview (Maria Mavroudi)
Representations: Erotic Literature
The Arab States (Tarek Shamma)
Indonesia (Cahyanigrum Dewajati)
Iran (Gita Hashemi & Fataneh Farahani)
Turkey and the Ottoman Empire (Irvin Schick)
Representations: Fiction, Modern
Argentina (Chirstina Civantos)
The Balkans (Jelena Petrovic)
The Caucasus (Rebecca Gould)
Iran (Farah Yeganeh & Mohammad Fuladi)
Turkey (Jale Parla)
Representations: Film
The Arab States (Viola Shafik)
Central Asia (Michael Rouland)
Iran (Negin Nabavi)
Sub-Saharan Africa (Frances Harding)
Turkey (Petra de Bruijn)
Representations: Humorous Depictions
The Balkans (Sabrina Peric)
The Ottoman Empire (Helga Anetshofer)
Representations: Legends and Epics
The Caucasus (Anna Senarslan)
Central Asia (Nurten Kilic-Schubel)
East Africa (Joseph Mbele)
Southeast Asia, East Asia, Australia and the Pacific (Hussain Othman)
The Ottoman Empire (Helga Anetshofer)
Turkey (Suheyla Saritas)
Representations: Legends, Epics and Arts: Performers and Performing Groups
Sub-Saharan Africa: West Africa (Marloes Janson)
Representations: Metaphors of the Female Body
Overview (Negar Mottahedeh)
Representations: Music
Afghanistan (Veronica Doubleday)
The Caucasus (Anna Senarslan)
Iran (Ann Lucas)
South Asia (Amelia Maciszewski)
Turkey (Derya Sonal Iner)
Representations: Muslim Women and Gender in the Colonial Imagination
Overview (Lenore Lyons)
Representations: Poetry, Modern
The Arab States (Lucine Taminian)
Central Asia (Nurten Kilic-Schubel)
East Africa (Inyani Simala)
Turkey (Mediha Gobenli)
Representations: Poetry and Prose, Pre-Modern
Arabic and Persian (Leyla Rouhi)
Southeast Asia (Wazir Jahan Karim)
Turkish (Selim Kuru)
Urdu (and other relevant South Asian languages) (Carla Petievich)
Representations: Print, Broadcast, and Electronic Media
Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore (Vissia Yulianto)
Iran (Mahsa Shekarloo)
North Africa (Zahia Smail Salhi)
North America (Sunera Thobani)
South Africa (Gabeba Baderoon)
Turkey (Meltem Narter)
Representations: Proverbs, Adages and Riddles
Egypt and Sudan (Ismail Abdalla)
The Gulf (Kinga Devenyi)
Iran (Erika Loeffler Friedl)
North Africa (Aida Bamia)
The Ottoman Empire (Helga Anetshofer)
Turkey and the Caucasus (Hande Birkalan-Gedik)
Yemen (Linda Boxberger)
Representations: Qur'an
Overview (Brannon Wheeler)
Representations: Romance Fiction
Turkey (Asli Yazici Yakin)
Representations: Sufi Literature
Overview (Laury Silvers-Alario)
Representations: Sufi Women, Early Period, 7th-10th Centuries
Overview (Laury Silvers-Alario)
Representations: Theater
The Arab States (Mona Mikhail)
The Ottoman Empire (Petra de Bruijn)
Representations: Visual Arts
Overview (Iftikhar Dadi)
The Arab States (Kirsten Scheid Idriss)
Eastern Europe (Simona Cupic & Lidija Merenik)
The Ottoman Empire (Nancy Micklewright)
Representations: Wiles of Women in Literature
Overview (Shalom Goldman)

Indices to Volume V
Name Index
Subject Index