The Forgotten Queens of Islam

The Forgotten Queens of IslamUniversity of Minnesota Press (2006) � ISBN: 0816624399 � 240 pages � PDF � 12.2 MBWhen Benazir Bhutto became prime minister of Pakistan in 1988, many claimed that it was a blasphemous assault on Islamic tradition since no Muslim state, critics alleged, had ever been governed by a woman. But Fatima Mernissi examined fifteen centuries of Islamic history and discovered