Award-winning historian Theodore Friend recently set out alone across Asia and the Middle East on a quest to understand firsthand the life situations of women in Indonesia; Pakistan; Saudi Arabia; Iran; and Turkey. Woman; Man; and God in Modern Islam recounts Friend’s remarkable journey and relates hundreds of encounters and conversations with people he met along the way.Commingling a deep respect for Islam and his faith in the potential of women to change their worlds; Friend presents an open; exploratory outsider’s perspective on women in five very different Islamic cultures ― timely fare for all who wish to broaden their world horizons.
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31 of 34 people found the following review helpful. Useful reference toolBy D. DailyThese comprehensive translations are of the non-Biblical texts found from the caves at Qumran; and are useful for anyone interested primarily in the *content* of the scrolls. The hebrew texts are not given in this work (those interested in such should search under title = "Dead Sea Scrolls Study Edition"; published both by Brill/Eerdmans); and the Biblical texts are not given (bibliographies are given for these texts-- most often the Oxford series *Discoveries in the Judaean Desert* is the primary source for Biblical texts).Serious students of Qumran literature will need more than this work; of course; given that some of the renderings given in the book are disputed (debate over the particulars of any given text can be consulted in academic journals and monographs). The book is a solid compilation of translations of the Dead Sea Scrolls.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Author did a great job of filling in some of the blanksBy Samuel E. SmithNever realized "the Qumran" was recovered so incompletely! Author did a great job of filling in some of the blanks! Thanx!0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Very difficult to read in terms of time consuming; ...By Cecilia O. HowardVery difficult to read in terms of time consuming; but extremely interesting for what we have known about Judaism and Christianity. I learn a ot.
