55, 203-222.

55, 203-222. [^26]: This is explained in detail by Leila Ahmed in Women and Gender in Islam (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992), 150ff. Most of what follows in this section is a summary of information presented in Ahmed's work. [^27]: See Cromer's Modern Egypt, 2 vols. (New York: Macmillan, 1908), cited in Ahmed (1992), p. 152-153. 28 Ahmed (1992), p.154 [^29]: Sachiko Murata, The Tao of Islam (Albany: SUNY Press, 1992), p. 4. [^30]: Murata (1992), p. 323.

[^31]: Murtada Mutahhari, The Rights of Women in Islam (Tehran: WOFIS, 1991), p. 314, 309-312. [^32]: Mutahhari (1991), p. 306. [^33]: Mutahhari (1991), p. 66. [^34]: Haleh Afshar, "Women and the Politics of Fundamentalism in Iran," in Haleh Afshar, ed.. Women and Politics in the Third World (London: Routledge, 1996), p. 126. [^35]: Ziba Mir-Hosseini, "Women and Politics in Post-Khomeini Iran;' in Afshar (1996), p. 143. [^36]: Ziba Mir-Hosseini (1996), p. 163.…