From the Book - First Syracuse University Press edition.
Foreword / Her Highness Sheikha Moza Bint Nasser
Introduction: Researching the Gulf / Amira El-Azhary Sonbol
Women in Eastern Arabia: Myth and Representation / Hatoon Ajwad Al-Fassi (Professor of History, King Saud University, Riyadh)
Tribalism, Tribal Feuds and the Social Status of Women / Allen Fromherz (Assistant Professor of History, Georgia State University)
Women and Politics in Late Jahili and Early Islamic Arabia: Reading behind Patriarchal History / Barbara Freyer Stowasser (Professor of Arabic, Georgetown University)
Love Discourse in Hijazi Society under the Umayyads: A Study in Class and Gender / Amira El-Zein (Visiting Associate Professor of Arabic/ Islamic Studies and Comparative Literature, Georgetown School of Foreign Service, Qatar)
Nomadic Histories: Reflections on Bedouin Women's Poetry from the Gulf Region / Moneera Al-Ghadeer (Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Qatar University)
Women and the Economy: Pre-Oil Gulf States / Hoda El Saadi (Associate Professor of History, Cairo University)
A Labor of Love: Making Space for Midwives in Gulf History / Hibba Abugideiri (Assistant Professor of History, Villanova University)
Women's Religious Activities in the Arabian Peninsula: A Historical Outlook / Omaima Abou-Bakr (Professor of Literature, Cairo University)
Women and Education in the Gulf : Between the Modern and the Traditional / Ramadan Al-Khouli (Doctoral Candidate, Department of History, Cairo University)
Women of the Gulf During the First Half of the Twenthieth Century: A Comparative Study of American Missionary Archives and Local Memory / Fatma Al-Sayegh (Professor of History, University of the Emirates)
Some Considerations on the Family in the Arabian Peninsula in the Late Ottoman and Early Post-Ottoman Period / Soraya Altorki (Professor of Anthropology, American University in Cairo)
The Family in Gulf History / Amira El-Azhary Sonbol (Professor of Islamic History, Law and Society, Georgetown University)
Gender Rights and Islamic Legal Tradition: An Exploration / Ziba Mir-Hosseini (Freelance Academic at New York University and London)
Gulf Women and the Codification of Muslim Family Law / Lynn Welchman (Professor, School of African and Oriental Studies, London).
