Women, Patronage, and Self-Representation in Islamic Societies

D. Fairchild Ruggles is Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Eastern Studies at Cornell University.

"This book deals with issues of women's patronage within the Islamic world which are placed within a theoretical framework of wider concerns of women's patronage and self-representation, and which provide a series of specific historically and regionally differentiated cases. Other recent writing on the status and power of women within the Islamic world is either monographic in its treatment of one period or moves almost immediately to present concerns. The authors challenge the received wisdom on the place and the agency of elite women in Islamic societies by examining their public personas—the buildings and artifacts carrying their names." — Renata Holod, coauthor of The Contemporary Mosque: Architects, Clients and Designs Since the 1950s

• List of Illustrations Preface 1. Vision and Power: An IntroductionD. Fairchild Ruggles 2. Dayfa Khatun, Regent Queen and Architectual PatronYasser Tabbaa 3. Princess Safwat al-Dunya wa al-Din and the Production of Sufi Buildings and Hagiographies in Pre-Ottoman AnatoliaEthel Sara Wolper 4. Gender and Sexual Propriety in Ottoman Royal Women's PatronageLeslie Peirce 5. The Yeni Valide Mosque Complex of Eminonu, Istanbul (1597-1665): Gender and Vision in Ottoman ArchitectureLucienne Thys-Senocak 6. Women's Wealth and Styles of Giving: Perspectives from Buddhist, Jain, and Mughal SitesEllison Banks Findly 7. Gendered Patronage: Women and Benevolence during the Early Safavid EmpireKishwar Rizvi 8. Public and Private for Ottoman Women of the Nineteenth CenturyNancy Micklewright 9. Mirrors Out, Mirrors In: Domestication and Rejection of the Foreign in Late-Ottoman Women's MagazinesElizabeth Brown Frierson 10. "Nothing Romantic about It!" A Critique of Orientalist Representation in the Installations of Houria NiatiSalah Hassan BibliographyAbout the Authors Index