Khan, Ruqayya Yasmine. Self and Secrecy in Early Islam. Studies in Comparative Religion. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2008. 186 pp. $39.95 (cloth).

2011 ◽  
Vol 91 (1) ◽  
pp. 113-114
Author(s):  
Jocelyn Sharlet
Keyword(s):  
South Carolina ◽  
Comparative Religion ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
University Of South Carolina ◽  
Early Islam

PIETERNELLAVAN DOORN-HARDER, Contemporary Coptic Nuns, Studies in Comparative Religion (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1995). Pp. 262.

2000 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 546-547
Author(s):  
Camilla Gibb
Keyword(s):  
South Carolina ◽  
Arab World ◽  
Muslim Women ◽  
Comparative Religion ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
University Of South Carolina ◽  
Egyptian Women ◽  
Coptic Church

As van Doorn-Harder rightly states, recent research on women in the Arab world has focused nearly exclusively on Muslim women. In this study of contemporary Coptic nuns, van Doorn-Harder offers us richly detailed observations of the lives of a rarely studied group of Egyptian women. Situating this discussion in the context of Coptic revival in Egypt, van Doorn-Harder gives a sense of the dynamic and evolving functions of the Coptic church, and how these have been reflected in Egyptian convents since the mid-1950s.

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