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Making Women’s Histories
Examines how women's histories are explored and
explained around the world Making Women's
Histories showcases the transformations that the intellectual
and political production of women's history has engendered across
time and space. It considers the difference women's and gender
history has made to and within national fields of study, and to
what extent the wider historiography has integrated this new
knowledge. What are the accomplishments of women's and gender
history? What are its shortcomings? What is its future? The
contributors discuss their discovery of women's histories, the
multiple turns the field has taken, and how place affected the
course of this scholarship. Noted scholars of women's and gender
history, they stand atop such historiographically-defined vantage
points as Tsarist Russia, the British Empire in Egypt and India,
Qing-dynasty China, and the U.S. roiling through the 1960s. From
these and other peaks they gaze out at the world around them,
surveying trajectories in the creation of women's histories in
recent and distant pasts and envisioning their futures.
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Parable and politics in early islamic history
The story of the succession to the Prophet Muhammad and the rise of the Rashidun Caliphate (632-661 AD) is familiar to historians from the political histories of medieval Islam, which treat it as a factual account. The story also informs the competing perspectives of Sunni and Shi'i Islam, which read into it the legitimacy of their claims. Yet while descriptive and varied, these approaches have long excluded a third reading, which views the conflict over the succession to the Prophet as a parable. From this vantage point, the motives, sayings, and actions of the protagonists reveal profound links to previous texts, not to mention a surprising irony regarding political and religious issues.
In a controversial break from previous historiography, Tayeb El-Hibri privileges the literary and artistic triumphs of the medieval Islamic chronicles and maps the origins of Islamic political and religious orthodoxy. Considering the patterns and themes of these unified narratives, including the problem of measuring personal qualification according to religious merit, nobility, and skills in government, El-Hibri offers an insightful critique of both early and contemporary Islam and the concerns of legitimacy shadowing various rulers. In building an argument for reading the texts as parabolic commentary, he also highlights the Islamic reinterpretation of biblical traditions, both by Qur'anic exegesis and historical composition.
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