I'm not sure if there was something wrong with my copy of this book, but I was only able to read the introduction. It was interesting, but I'd love to hear more.

I thought this was just so interesting. I have read a little but not too much on gender roles in Islam.
This is a great introduction which covers the history to the modern day. Overall, a really insightful and interesting read. I think this should be required and essential reading , everyone should be encouraged to broaden their worldview and willing to learn more.

Thanks to netgalley and the publisher for a free copy for an honest opinion

This book was extremely interesting. I have been reading more non-fiction lately so as soon as I saw this I was drawn to it. It is a reasonable easy read, I lacked a lot of background knowledge since this is my first book on the subject, however with the help of the notes and some quick searches you are able to follow what is being said and for me getting new perspectives I was not familiarized with was the goal.

I believe this was a great introduction since you can follow from the historical roots until more recent days and definitely got me interested to read more about the subject. I have a few pages of notes and books to check out and I feel like I got a direction on different perspectives and where to go from here. Overall very worth reading and even though I don't have a formed opinion of a subject I know so litlle about I definitely feel this was extremely valuable to get me started.

I love broadening my worldview when I'm reading. With nonfiction I try to push that even more. I love reading about people who are not like me, I love learning about other cultures or places I've never been, I just really want to learn and better myself.

Women and Gender in Islam by Leila Ahmed did just that. I've not read any nonfiction books dealing with this topic before and am so glad I picked it up. The author does a great job of using Egypt and their history as a bit of a through-line in the book as a cultural touchstone for what she was writing about.

This book was a bit more academic than what I'm used to and there were some points that I needed a bit more background on a subject/topic but all in all I was able to follow it really well and learned so much.

I would highly recommend this and am going to look for more nonfiction about this topic in the future.

Thank you to NetGalley and Yale University Press for the eARC of Women and Gender in Islam: Historical Roots of a Modern Debate in exchange for an honest review.

This is an extremely useful text for students, educators and interested people in gender and gender roles in Islam. The book is nuanced and insightful and I used it in my own studies a while ago so an updated edition is a much welcome addition for my teaching resource list!

This book sounded exactly like the type of book I would love unfortunately the copy was unreadable. The only part of the book that was there was the introduction.

I could only read the forward to this book. The book itself was too small to read on my Kindle. Thus, I do not offer an actual opinion.

Unfortunately, the file only contains the foreword, so I can’t really comment on the book as a whole. It seems like it has a lot of promise, but I can’t say much more.

Not sure if this is only meant to be a preview but the file only contains the table of contents, forward, and index.