1. Women and Religious Learning: Piety and a Matter of Propriety 2. Prayer, the Mosque, and the Ways Women Worship 3. The Healing Power of Words: Ink, Spit, and Holy Speech 4. Engaging Spirits: Prophylaxis, Witchcraft, Exorcisms, Trial by Ordeal, and Zar 5. When Words Fail: Surgeries, Smells, and Salt Packing, Community, Gender, and the Spiritual Experience: Some Conclusions
Eleanor Abdella Doumato is adjunct professor of international relations at the Watson Institute of Brown University. She is a past president of the Association for Middle East Women's Studies and the editor of the Middle East Women's Studies Review.
"Doumato...has commendably brought together historical sources of true significance for the history of Arabia, and specifically for women's medical practices and spiritual rituals...[T]his book provides rich substantive information that significantly advances understanding of social life in the Arabian peninsula for the time period under review." -- Middle East Journal "By exploring the gendered dimensions of Wahhabi discourses and practices during the revival, Doumato brings the question of gender into an historical space and time rarely explored." -- Arab Studies Journal "A valuable contribution to understanding the religious experiences of Muslim women in the Arabian peninsula and the Gulf." -- Religious Studies Review
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