Much of what we know about life in the Medieval Islamic Middle East comes from texts written to impart religious ideals or to chronicle the movements of great men. 969-1250)..
How did women participate in the societies these texts describe? What about non-Muslims, whose own religious traditions descended partly from pre-Islamic late antiquity? Coming of Age in Medieval Egypt approaches these questions through Jewish women\'s Adolescence in Fatimid and Ayyubid Egypt and Syria (c.
Much of what we know about life in the Medieval Islamic Middle East comes from texts written to impart religious ideals or to chronicle the movements of great men