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Extraordinary Women from the Muslim World
Extraordinary Women from the Muslim World is an illustrative introduction to 13 Muslim women in history who have lived extraordinary lives and influenced their communities in a positive way, often overcoming extreme hardship and inaccurate stereotypes that have been placed on the role of women in Islam. The profits from the book will be donated to charities helping women and children in Western Sudan.
120 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 2007
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March 6, 2014An innovative and brilliant idea; a book accessible to young girls looking for role models and adults interested in learning more about Muslim women, add to all that beautifully executed illustrations and you should have the formula for a perfect book, right?
Well, almost.
What I took issue with in this book is that it seemed like the author was trying to assimilate these women to certain western standards, for example the artist Chibia Tallal is illustrated to look more than 50 kilos thinner than her true self p95 , why not show her for all her beauty as a role model for heavier-set girls? And our mother Khadija is said to have said “she would marry only for love” p13 there is no record of her ever having said that anywhere! In fact in the records we have of her it would seem that she was looking for someone whose great purpose she could share, She was a strong women looking for a great man whom she could help forge a whole nation! why water it down to a Disney style fantasy?
But I still enjoyed it, and most importantly learned about great strong Muslim women I did not know of which is what I wanted from this book in the first place.
Well, almost.
What I took issue with in this book is that it seemed like the author was trying to assimilate these women to certain western standards, for example the artist Chibia Tallal is illustrated to look more than 50 kilos thinner than her true self p95 , why not show her for all her beauty as a role model for heavier-set girls? And our mother Khadija is said to have said “she would marry only for love” p13 there is no record of her ever having said that anywhere! In fact in the records we have of her it would seem that she was looking for someone whose great purpose she could share, She was a strong women looking for a great man whom she could help forge a whole nation! why water it down to a Disney style fantasy?
But I still enjoyed it, and most importantly learned about great strong Muslim women I did not know of which is what I wanted from this book in the first place.
November 25, 2014
سبب قراءتي للكتاب في المقام الاول هو جوده الرسومات .. :'D
July 4, 2018
هذا الكتاب من افضل الكتب التي قرائتها في الفتره الاخيره...
مميز جداً من ناحية سرد القصص و الصور المبهره و الشخصيات التي تركت بصمه في عالمنا
لم يكن عميقاً ومفصلاً ولكن استطاع ان يعرفنا بالشخصيات بصوره مبسطه و مسليه وكانت
احدى شخصياتي المفضله ( أروى بنت احمد الصليحيه)
هي اول ملكه في الاسلام حكمت شعبها بالسلام وتركت آثار عدّه ، ازدهرت اليمن حتى قيل "لا تصلح اليمن إلا بحكم امرأه"
سُعدت جداً بقراءة هذا الكتاب ..
مميز جداً من ناحية سرد القصص و الصور المبهره و الشخصيات التي تركت بصمه في عالمنا
لم يكن عميقاً ومفصلاً ولكن استطاع ان يعرفنا بالشخصيات بصوره مبسطه و مسليه وكانت
احدى شخصياتي المفضله ( أروى بنت احمد الصليحيه)
هي اول ملكه في الاسلام حكمت شعبها بالسلام وتركت آثار عدّه ، ازدهرت اليمن حتى قيل "لا تصلح اليمن إلا بحكم امرأه"
سُعدت جداً بقراءة هذا الكتاب ..
April 16, 2009
Excellent book. It has the layout of a children's book, but the content is too complete and interesting to validate that pigeonhole. The portraits are wonderful. The time spanned is from Mohammed (pbuh) to the present day. Excellent gift, and/or addition to one's own library.
There is a prominent article about it in the Variety section of my local newspaper, the illustrations were created by a Minneapolis woman - Heba Amin - who moved here from Egypt to attend Macalester, switched from Math to Art while there, and went on to do post-baccalaureate work and then get her MFA at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. It talks about the nine months she spent creating the portraits for each woman, involving lots of research (no pohotographs existed for most of the subjects).
There is a prominent article about it in the Variety section of my local newspaper, the illustrations were created by a Minneapolis woman - Heba Amin - who moved here from Egypt to attend Macalester, switched from Math to Art while there, and went on to do post-baccalaureate work and then get her MFA at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. It talks about the nine months she spent creating the portraits for each woman, involving lots of research (no pohotographs existed for most of the subjects).
November 18, 2014
The book was definitely a pleasure to read. I even enjoyed reading it to my 11-year-old sister who kept asking me to read to her, the storytelling style of the book definitely caught her attention. Although it contains some wrong historical data about Aisha, Prophet Muhammad's wife and about Rabia'a Al-Adaweyyah. This book shouldn't be your sole source of information about women in Islam.
January 12, 2012
الكتاب رائع جدا, تحدث عن عدت شخصيات قدمن الكثير
فعلا هن نساء عظيمات في العلام الاسلامي إلا واحدة
لا أدري سببا لوضعها بينهن!
فعلا هن نساء عظيمات في العلام الاسلامي إلا واحدة
لا أدري سببا لوضعها بينهن!
December 5, 2014
فعلاً عظيمات!
كتاب بسيط يتحدث عن شخصيات نساء أحدثن فرقا في عالمهن وعن أعمالهم الجلية وشجاعة بعضهن،الفخر بأنهن مسلمات.
كتاب بسيط يتحدث عن شخصيات نساء أحدثن فرقا في عالمهن وعن أعمالهم الجلية وشجاعة بعضهن،الفخر بأنهن مسلمات.
April 8, 2018
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SPOILER FREE
Esse é um dos livros que escolhi para o desafio literário de abril, que tem como tema "Uma História Oriental", e como ando num clima de ler mulheres falando sobre mulheres (a resenha do último livro da trilogia da Guinevere já vem, aguardem), nada melhor do que escolher um livro escrito por uma mulher, ilustrado por outra mulher e que fale sobre mulheres muçulmanas.
O livro em si é bem simples, consiste em capítulos pequenos onde cada um fala sobre uma mulher importante na história do mundo muçulmano (que é muito maior do que as pessoas costumam imaginar). As mulheres estão ordenadas de forma histórica, das mais antigas para as mais modernas, e todo capítulo possui uma ilustração belíssima da mulher em questão.
Uma das coisas interessantes é que todos os envolvidos nesse livro também são muçulmanos e de diversos lugares diferentes! E as mulheres retratadas são tão diversas quanto os autores! Coisa linda de ver! Tem mulher santa, poetisa, guerreira, educadora, advogada, intelectual... e de lugares absurdamente diferentes: Egito, Irã, Turquia, Iêmen, Índia, Nigéria e Arábia Saudita. Todas as mulheres retratas tem histórias incríveis e a leitura é rápida e uma delícia. O único porém é que são rápidas demais, eu gostaria de saber mais sobre cada uma delas, de tão incríveis que elas são. É o único defeito do livro.
As mulheres retratadas são: Khadija bint Khuwaylid, da Arábia, primeira esposa do profeta Maomé; Aisha bint Abi Bakr, da Arábia, esposa favorita do profeta e intelectual (a maior parte dos Hadith são de sua autoria); Al-Khansa, da Arábia, poetisa pré-islâmica que se converteu ao Islã e se tornou uma dos primeiros poetas muçulmanos; Rabia al-Adawiyya, do Iraque, santa sufi, um dos santos mais proeminentes do sufismo; Arwa bint Ahmed al-Sulayhiyya, rainha do Iêmen, mulher de história sensacional; Sultão Razia, da Índia, Rainha guerreira de Delhi, recebeu o título de Sultão ao invés de Sultana; Nana Asmau, da Nigéria, intelectual, poetisa e educadora do século XIX; Tjut Njak Dien, da Indonésia, intelectual e líder guerrilheira; Halide Edib Adivar , da Turquia, autora da única autobiografia feminina que se passa durante a primeira guerra mundial na Turquia, ativista dos direitos das mulheres; Umm Kulthum, do Egito, cantora célebre em todo o mundo árabe e uma das minhas ídolas da música árabe; Sabiha Gokcen, da Turquia, piloto militar, filha adotada do fundador da Turquia moderna, Ataturk, um dos aeroportos de Istambul leva o seu nome; Chaibia Tallal, do Marrocos, pintora do século XX; Shirin Ebadi, do Irã, advogada, juíza e ganhadora do Prêmio Nobel da Paz.
Como eu disse, só histórias incríveis.
SPOILER FREE
Esse é um dos livros que escolhi para o desafio literário de abril, que tem como tema "Uma História Oriental", e como ando num clima de ler mulheres falando sobre mulheres (a resenha do último livro da trilogia da Guinevere já vem, aguardem), nada melhor do que escolher um livro escrito por uma mulher, ilustrado por outra mulher e que fale sobre mulheres muçulmanas.
O livro em si é bem simples, consiste em capítulos pequenos onde cada um fala sobre uma mulher importante na história do mundo muçulmano (que é muito maior do que as pessoas costumam imaginar). As mulheres estão ordenadas de forma histórica, das mais antigas para as mais modernas, e todo capítulo possui uma ilustração belíssima da mulher em questão.
Uma das coisas interessantes é que todos os envolvidos nesse livro também são muçulmanos e de diversos lugares diferentes! E as mulheres retratadas são tão diversas quanto os autores! Coisa linda de ver! Tem mulher santa, poetisa, guerreira, educadora, advogada, intelectual... e de lugares absurdamente diferentes: Egito, Irã, Turquia, Iêmen, Índia, Nigéria e Arábia Saudita. Todas as mulheres retratas tem histórias incríveis e a leitura é rápida e uma delícia. O único porém é que são rápidas demais, eu gostaria de saber mais sobre cada uma delas, de tão incríveis que elas são. É o único defeito do livro.
As mulheres retratadas são: Khadija bint Khuwaylid, da Arábia, primeira esposa do profeta Maomé; Aisha bint Abi Bakr, da Arábia, esposa favorita do profeta e intelectual (a maior parte dos Hadith são de sua autoria); Al-Khansa, da Arábia, poetisa pré-islâmica que se converteu ao Islã e se tornou uma dos primeiros poetas muçulmanos; Rabia al-Adawiyya, do Iraque, santa sufi, um dos santos mais proeminentes do sufismo; Arwa bint Ahmed al-Sulayhiyya, rainha do Iêmen, mulher de história sensacional; Sultão Razia, da Índia, Rainha guerreira de Delhi, recebeu o título de Sultão ao invés de Sultana; Nana Asmau, da Nigéria, intelectual, poetisa e educadora do século XIX; Tjut Njak Dien, da Indonésia, intelectual e líder guerrilheira; Halide Edib Adivar , da Turquia, autora da única autobiografia feminina que se passa durante a primeira guerra mundial na Turquia, ativista dos direitos das mulheres; Umm Kulthum, do Egito, cantora célebre em todo o mundo árabe e uma das minhas ídolas da música árabe; Sabiha Gokcen, da Turquia, piloto militar, filha adotada do fundador da Turquia moderna, Ataturk, um dos aeroportos de Istambul leva o seu nome; Chaibia Tallal, do Marrocos, pintora do século XX; Shirin Ebadi, do Irã, advogada, juíza e ganhadora do Prêmio Nobel da Paz.
Como eu disse, só histórias incríveis.
March 3, 2017
كنت أتوقع انه أعمق من ذلك ، جاء بنقاط عامة جدا
وددت لو انه من يتحدث عن ثلاثة عشر شخصية لو تحدث عن خمس شخصيات مثلا ولكن بزخم أكبر ...
وهل يعقل ان يتحدث عن سيدتنا خديجة ثم عائشة و بعدهما يتحدث عن الخنساء
كان صادم لي بدرجة كبيرة
وددت لو انه من يتحدث عن ثلاثة عشر شخصية لو تحدث عن خمس شخصيات مثلا ولكن بزخم أكبر ...
وهل يعقل ان يتحدث عن سيدتنا خديجة ثم عائشة و بعدهما يتحدث عن الخنساء
كان صادم لي بدرجة كبيرة
June 20, 2017
كتاب لطيف جداً وخفيف، يجمع بين شخصيات مختلفه من العالم الاسلامي.
افضل سن لقراءته للصغار ما بين السبع والعشر سنين كافي ليخلق لهم الاهتمام بالمحتوى، أيضاً يحتوي على الكثير من الصور والالوان المختلفه لكل شخصيه.
افضل سن لقراءته للصغار ما بين السبع والعشر سنين كافي ليخلق لهم الاهتمام بالمحتوى، أيضاً يحتوي على الكثير من الصور والالوان المختلفه لكل شخصيه.
June 26, 2019
That book is amazing book to me
One of the reasons why
It’s talk about real story of Muslim girls
And it’s a piece of art every story it’s have beautiful design for it
قطعة فنية رائع
من النادر رؤية كُتب ذات محتوى جميل و مليء بالفن في
نفس الوقت
One of the reasons why
It’s talk about real story of Muslim girls
And it’s a piece of art every story it’s have beautiful design for it
قطعة فنية رائع
من النادر رؤية كُتب ذات محتوى جميل و مليء بالفن في
نفس الوقت
May 22, 2017
الكتاب ممتع وسريع خلصته تقريبا بيوم .. تكلم عن شخصيات اعرفها وشخصيات اول مره اسمع عنها ..
امهات مؤمنين .. حاكمات .. مناضلات .. فنانات .. وغيره ..
امهات مؤمنين .. حاكمات .. مناضلات .. فنانات .. وغيره ..
September 19, 2016
الكتاب رائع فيه سرد لعدد من النساء العظيمات في العالم الإسلامي في كل المجالات،
توقعت أن الكتاب سيكون محوره نساء العالم العربي وخاصة فترة الرسالة وفترة الخلافة وما يليها، ولكن الكتاب فاجئني بتناوله لنساء من كل أنحاء العالم الإسلامي وفي كل تواريخه.
الكتاب لغته سهلة وبسيطة ولوح الشخصيات رائعة.
#ترشيح
توقعت أن الكتاب سيكون محوره نساء العالم العربي وخاصة فترة الرسالة وفترة الخلافة وما يليها، ولكن الكتاب فاجئني بتناوله لنساء من كل أنحاء العالم الإسلامي وفي كل تواريخه.
الكتاب لغته سهلة وبسيطة ولوح الشخصيات رائعة.
#ترشيح
March 25, 2015
This is a great material to read to children! Although it's quite lengthy, it most likely would appeal to those in the age range of 8-13. Beautiful illustrations depicting truly remarkable individuals. Definitely worthy!
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August 8, 2014297.0922 M4679 2007
April 17, 2015
رائدات وقائدات لم أكن حتى أعرف عنهن
March 10, 2016
كتاب ممتاز للفتيات لإعطائهن قدوة من المجتمع الإسلامي.
November 10, 2016
لقد آمنت بأن كل النساء من شتى مناحي الحياة يتشاركن في مسئولتيهن عن بعضهن , خاصة المتعلمات منهن.
January 28, 2013
a very nice book
April 28, 2018
مو كل الشخصيات مهمين الكتاب اغلب معلوماته معروفه
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