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The Veil and The Male Elite: A Feminist Interpretation of Women's Rights in Islam. By Fatima Mernissi. Translated by Mary Jo Lakeland. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley1991. Pp. xi, 228. Paper. Price not available. ISBN: 0-201-63221-7.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 April 2015

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Copyright © Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University 2000

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References

1. All citations in the text refer to the book under review.

2. Mernissi, Fatima, Beyond the Veil: Male-Female Dynamics in Modern Muslim Society (Ind.U. Press 1990)Google Scholar.

3. See for example, Zuhur, Sherifa, Revealing Revelling: Islamist Gender Ideology in Contemporary Egypt 144 (N.Y.: S.U.N.Y. Press 1992)Google Scholar.