Fatima Mernissi
21 Aug 1995 17:02Feminist sociologist, formerly professor at the University of Mohammed V in Morocco (at least, a correspondent informs me she's no longer there); perhaps the most interesting Arab intellectual now being published in a European language. (She has a list of rational, modernist Arab intellectuals suffering from malign neglect on the part of Europe: Muhammad 'Amara Husayn Mruwa, Muhammad al-Jabiri, Taha Husayn, and apparently a case. Only Taha appears in a European language in the Berkeley catalog, and then the only work is his autobiography. Amara and Mruwa do not appear at all, al-Jabiri in Arabic only.)
- Recommended:
- Forgotten Queens of Islam [Ignore the fact that it's from the University of Minnesota Press and has people babbling about ``agency'' and ``subjectivity'' on the cover: it's a good book.]
- Islam and Democracy: Fear of the Modern World
- The Veil and the Male Elite [Review]
- To read:
- Doing Daily Battle: Interviews with Moroccan Women
- Beyond the Veil: Male-Female Dynamics in Modern Muslim Society
- Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood
- There's a Fatima Mernissi web-page, which I've only glanced at.
