Fatima.Mernessi_The-Forgotten-Queens-of-Islam-EN

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55-6, 57, 152, 153; symbols, 24;
veil (hijab) between people and,
35, 79-80, 82, 178, 179-81,
181-3; women and, 21-5, 26-36,
153; see also Abbasid caliphs;
Fatimids; khutba
Camel, Battle of the, 66
caste system, Hindu, 93, 94, 97
Christianity, 21, 44-9, 160-1,
172-3
coins, minting of: criterion of
sovereignty, 71, 73, 86;
instances, 73, 89-90, 92, 94,
101, 104
community of faithful see umma
Companions of the Prophet, 66,
78-9, 180
conciseness, 78-9
concubines see jawari
Constantinople, 58
Crusades, 14, 28, 29, 90, 91
da'i, da'wa (Shi'ite
missionary/mission), 127, 129,
130-2, 134, 154-5, 164-5;
women and, 149, 150, 154
Damietta, 29
Dawlat Khatun, 104-5
Declaration of Human Rights,
Universal, 177, 185
Delhi, 13-14, 30; see also
Iltutmish; Radiyya
democracy, 4, 118, 122-3, 179-89;
incompatibility with Islamic
tradition, 34, 35, 36, 64, 179-89;
Prophet's attitude to, 74-8, 80,
122, 150, 183
despotism, 10-11, 80, 98, 181
al-Dhahir, Fatimid caliph, 160
disorder (fitna), 66, 176, 177, 185
Dokuz Khatun, 21
Druzes, 125, 163, 174
education of women, 46-7, 54, 55,
56, 58, 59, 66, 177
Egypt: Mamluk dynasty, 14, 29,
90, 91, 99, 105-6; see also
Fatimids; Shajarat al-Durr; Sitt
al-Mulk
elections see democracy; suffrage
elite, 15-16, 34, 56, 79, 182-3,
184-5
eloquence, 78-9
equality: class 56, 93, 122; Prophet
and, 56, 122, 183; between
sexes, 13, 23; slave/master, 56,
60
espionage, 171-2
Ethiopia, 136, 137, 145
falaqa, 187-8
Farid al-Atrash, 174
Fatima (daughter of Prophet),
125-6, 149, 151, 153
Fatima, sultana of Maldives, 108
Fatima, Sharif a of Yemen, 20
Fatima Begum, sultana of Qasim,
106
Fatimids: and Abbasids, 22, 124,
129-30, 135; Byzantine wars,
162; descent from Prophet, 126,
128; Egyptian state, 22, 127,
128-30; North African state, 22,
125, 127-8, 128-9; Shi'ism, 22,
120, 124, 125, 126-7, 128,
129-30; and Yemen, 130, 132,
134, 149-51, 154, 155; see also
Sitt al-Mulk
fatwa (legal response), 72, 110
figh (jurisprudence), 20, 33, 54,
59, 66
fitna, see disorder
foreigners, 22, 27, 56; see also
slaves
freedom, (hurriya), 14-15
Gaykhatu, Ilkhan, 101
Genghis Khan, 21, 24
Ghaliyya al-Wahhabiyya, 20
Ghatrif, 53
Ghazan Khan, Ilkhan, 21, 24, 104
Ghaznah, 93