http://bactra.org/notebooks Cosma's Notebooks en http://bactra.org/notebooks/1995/08/21#mernissi <a href="feminism.html">Feminist</a> 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.) <ul>Recommended: <li><cite>Forgotten Queens of Islam</cite> [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.] <li><cite>Islam and Democracy: Fear of the Modern World</cite> <li><a href="../reviews/veil-and-the-male-elite/"><cite>The Veil and the Male Elite</cite> [Review]</a> </ul> <ul>To read: <li><cite>Doing Daily Battle: Interviews with Moroccan Women</cite> <li><cite>Beyond the Veil: Male-Female Dynamics in Modern Muslim Society</cite> <li><cite>Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood</cite> <li>There's a <a href="http://msanews.mynet.net/Scholars/Mernissi/">Fatima Mernissi</a> web-page, which I've only glanced at. </ul>