Gulf Women

This groundbreaking collection of fifteen essays provides a greater understanding of the history of the Gulf and the Arab world as well as the history of Muslim women and women everywhere. The result of a project aimed at finding sources and studying the history of women in the Gulf, the articles are presented in a thematic and chronological order starting with ancient history, and then moving on to the medieval, early modern and contemporary periods. These present women�� history before and after the coming of Islam, discourses regarding the life of women in early Islam and the contrast with their lived experiences, women�� work and the diversity of jobs they performed, the family ��and how it changed from one period to the other ��and the legal system and laws dealing with women and family from the pre-modern to the modern periods.