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Ingrams, Doreen
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The Position of Women in the Middle Eastern Society
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1971
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1971
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531
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Ingrams discusses Islam as a religion and way of life which acts as the principle factor in determining Arab women's social position. Her points are these: the Qu'ran states that women should be modest and chaste, and should not display their charms to any men except their husbands. Although nothing is said about wearing a veil and nothing ordains that women should be segregated, the purdah and the harem, customs of uncertain origin, became accepted and spread throughout the Islamic world as a means of ensuring the chastity of women. Women have been made almost completely dependant on men, although according to Ingrams, Islamic law intends to protect women in such matters as marriage, divorce and inheritance. The Arabian peninsula, with the exception of Kuwait and to some extend Bahrain and Aden, is the part of the Middle East that remains most traditional with regard to women. However,
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Adam, ed M.
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The Middle East--A Handbook
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New York: Praeger Publishers