TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hekmat,Anwar
TI  - Women and the Koran: the status of women in Islam 
SN  - 1573921629 :
AV  - BP134.W6 H45 1997
PY  - 1997///
CY  - Amherst, N.Y.
PB  - Prometheus Books
KW  - Women in the Koran
KW  - Women in Islam
KW  - Muslim women
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-273) and index
N2  - This controversial book exposes the origins and history of Islam's repression of women. Anwar Hekmat, a scholar who was brought up in Muslim Europe, explains how Arab tribal society degenerated from a polytheistic, pre-Islamic culture in which women enjoyed positions of relative prestige, honor, and equality, to one in which men dominate and women are little more than chattel
ER  -