Women and Gender in Islam: Historical Roots of a Modern Debate

Part 1: The pre-Islamic Middle East: Mesopotamia ; The Mediterranean Middle East -- Part 2: Founding Discourses: Women and the rise of Islam ; The transitional age ; Elaboration of the founding discourses ; Medieval Islam -- Part 3: New Discourses: Social and intellectual change ; The discourse of the veil ; The first feminists ; Divergent voices ; The struggle for the future.