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T1  - The Position of Women in Egypt under Early Medieval Islam : A Documentary Investigation 
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UR  - URN:NBN:fi:hulib-201901081011; http://hdl.handle.net/10138/300515 
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A1  - Obatnin, Georgii 
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PB  - Helsingin yliopisto 
Y1  - 2018 
LA  - eng 
AB  - In a history written by men, women are typically assigned minimal agency, hardly indicative of their real roles in the society. Traditionally, scholarship on women under Islam has been reliant on medieval Islamic historical, literary and legal works. These works were often written long after the events they depict and when it comes to depicting women, tend to be prescriptive, rather than descriptive. When it comes to Arabic documents written on papyrus, parchment and paper, these biases are larg... 
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KW  - Women; Papyrology; Arabic Papyri; Early Islam; Egypt; The Religious Roots of Europe; The Religious Roots of Europe; The Religious Roots of Europe 
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