Veil and the Male Elite: A Feminist Interpretation of Women's Rights in Islam
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780201523218 (0201523213)
Publish date: August 1st 1991
Publisher: Perseus Books
Pages no: 240
Edition language: English
Mernissi’s book is a history of Islam and the introduction of the veil. She draws upon Islamic scholar, to prove her thesis that the veil is social construct more than a religious must. Her chapter about the hiqab is game changing. In part, her thesis is that the Prophet was too pr...