The Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Women

Editor-in-chief: Natana J. Delong-Bas, Editorial Board member: Asma Afsaruddin, Hibba Abugideiri, Heba Ezzat, and John L. Esposito

More than 450 signed A-Z entries, by more than 250 international scholars, make this the authoritative resource on the subject.
Includes a topical outline of contents arranged by conceptual category, plus a general index to aid and guide research.
Organized around the central conceptual themes in research on Islam and women: Theory, Practice, and Interpretation of Religion; Self and Body; Immigration and Minorities; Sharia, Fiqh, Philosophy, and Reason; Culture and Expression; Wealth, Welfare and Labor; Politics and Polity; Scholarly Approaches and Theoretical Constructs; Community and Society, and Science, Medicine and Education.
Major focus on contemporary issues

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Women

Editor-in-chief: Natana J. Delong-Bas, Editorial Board member: Asma Afsaruddin, Hibba Abugideiri, Heba Ezzat, and John L. Esposito

Description

Scholarship on Islam and women has expanded exponentially over the past twenty years, with increasing specialization within the field, as well as cross-pollination between other fields and disciplines. With this surge in interest there is a genuine need for a systematic reference work to provide balanced comprehensive coverage of the field.

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Women is designed to meet this need by providing clear, current, comprehensive information on the major topics of scholarly interest within the study of women and Islam.

The Encyclopedia, which is based on the highly acclaimed Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World and is one of four encyclopedias in the Islamic World series, will be published as an e-book, in print, and on Oxford Islamic Studies Online. It will feature several hundred in-depth articles written by leading experts and is intended as a single source for accurate overview articles covering all aspects of this flourishing area of research.

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Women

Editor-in-chief: Natana J. Delong-Bas, Editorial Board member: Asma Afsaruddin, Hibba Abugideiri, Heba Ezzat, and John L. Esposito

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Women

Editor-in-chief: Natana J. Delong-Bas, Editorial Board member: Asma Afsaruddin, Hibba Abugideiri, Heba Ezzat, and John L. Esposito

Author Information

Editor-in-chief: Natana J. Delong-Bas, Editor in Chief, Boston College, USA, Editorial Board member: Asma Afsaruddin, Senior Editor, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA, Editorial Board member: Hibba Abugideiri, Senior Editor, Villanova University, USA, Editorial Board member: Heba Ezzat, Senior Editor, Cairo University, Egypt, and John L. Esposito

Natana J. DeLong-Bas teaches in the department of theology at Boston College. She is the author of Wahhabi Islam: From Revival and Reform to Global Jihad (2004), Notable Muslims: A Biographical Dictionary (2006), and co-author of Women in Muslim Family Law revised edition, with John L. Esposito (2001). She has served as editor for and contributor to The Oxford Dictionary of Islam, and contributor to The Encyclopaedia of the Qur'an (2004), and deputy editor for The Encyclopedia of the Islamic World. She is a frequent public speaker on Islam, Wahhabism, and Saudi Arabia.

Contributors:

267 international contributors.

Series Editor

John L. Esposito
Georgetown University

Editor in Chief

Natana J. Delong-Bas
Boston College

Editorial Board

Hibba Abugideiri
Villanova University

Asma Afsaruddin
Indiana University, Bloomington

Heba Raouf Ezzat
Cairo University

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Women

Editor-in-chief: Natana J. Delong-Bas, Editorial Board member: Asma Afsaruddin, Hibba Abugideiri, Heba Ezzat, and John L. Esposito

Reviews and Awards

"Many of the entries succeed in striking a balance between informational content and nuance as well as historical trajectory and contemporary relevance." - J. Hammer, Choice,