Subject

Aisha Taymur: Challenges of Change and Continuity

Summary

Articles in this book were read at the conference organized by WMF to remember Aisha Taymur (1840-1902), poet, writer and social commentator. The book includes the following chapters:- Hoda Elsadda: Introduction: Aisha Taymur and the Challenges of Change and Continuity in the Nineteenth Century/- Latifa Salem: The Social and Cultural History of the 1890s.- Kamal Mughith: Aisha Taymur and the Questions of Enlightenment.- Iman Amer: Society and Discourses on Women: The Case of Aisha Taymur.- Nabila Ibrahim: The Poetics of Feminist Writing: Aisha Taymur.- Lamia Tewfik: The Prison of Blindness and the Horizons of Identity in the Poetry of Aisha Taymur.- Mervat Hatem: Modernist Discourse and Aisha Taymur’s Vision of Social and Political Change in Egypt Between 1872-1890.- Omaima Abou-Bakr: The Image of ‘Man’ in Islamic Writings: Between Medieval and Modern Quranic Commentaries.- Hoda Elsadda: The Woman Question in National Discourse: A Reading of Abdallah Al-Nadim’s Magazine “Al-Ustaah” .