Siobhan Lambert Hurley: 2 books
Elusive Lives
Gender, Autobiography, and the Self in Muslim South Asia
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
Muslim South Asia is widely characterized as a culture that idealizes female anonymity: women's bodies are veiled and their voices silenced. Challenging these perceptions, Siobhan Lambert-Hurley highlights an elusive strand of autobiographical writing dating back several centuries that offers a new...
Muslim Women, Reform and Princely Patronage
Nawab Sultan Jahan Begam of Bhopal
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
This is a new and engaging examination of the emergence of a Muslim women’s movement in India. The state of Bhopal, a Muslim principality in central India, was ruled by a succession of female rulers throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, most notably the last Begam of Bhopal, Nawab Sultan...