Beyond the Veil by Fatima Mernissi is a book about gender dynamics in a modern Muslim society. It was first published by Schenkman Publishing Co. in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1975 but has not been in print since 1981. (ISBN 0-470-59612-0)
This is a book exploring how Islam treats women as equals to men and respects them. It also shows the importance of the veil, or hijab.
Famous quotes containing the word veil:
“If the veil were withdrawn from the sanctuary of domestic life, and man could look upon the fear, the loathing, the detestations which his tyranny and reckless gratification of self has caused to take the place of confiding love, which placed a woman in his power, he would shudder at the hideous wrong of the present regulations of the domestic abode.”
—Lydia Jane Pierson, U.S. women’s rights activist and corresponding editor of The Woman’s Advocate. The Woman’s Advocate, represented in The Lily, pp. 117-8 (1855-1858 or 1860)