Women, Islam, And Abbasid IdentityWhen the Abbasids overthrew the Umayyads in 750 CE and ushered in Islams Golden Age, ideas about gender and sexuality were central to the process by which the caliphate achieved self definition and articulated its systems of power and thought. Nadia Maria El Cheikhs study reveals the importance of women to the writing of early Islamic history.

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