Queens of Islam
The Muslim World's Historic Women Rulers
$49.02
- Paperback
248 pages
- Release Date
11 November 2025
Summary
A survey of prominent Muslim women rulers from the first centuries of Islamic history to early modern times.
From Pakistan to Indonesia, Kyrgyzstan to Nigeria, from Senegal to Turkey, it is not unusual in modern times for women in Muslim-majority countries to be appointed and/or elected to high offices, including heads of state.
Nor has it ever been.
Stretching back nearly to the founding of Islam itself, women have held positions of political power in…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781623717940 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1623717949 |
| Author: | Tom Verde |
| Publisher: | Interlink Publishing Group, Inc |
| Imprint: | Olive Branch Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 248 |
| Release Date: | 11 November 2025 |
| Weight: | 235g |
| Dimensions: | 152mm x 234mm |
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Critics Review
“Tom Verde’s book, Queens of Islam, serves as an invitation to Muslim history for the general reader and a challenge to professional historians to widen their lens. With subtle detail cast against a large canvas, the examples marshalled here, from Nigeria to Aceh, stand a corrective to stubborn specious western views of Muslim women.” – Alan Mikhail, professor, historian, and award-winning author of My Egypt Archive
“Tom Verde shares stories of 15 Muslim women rulers, dating back to the early Islamic era through the 17th century. The book pushes back on stereotypes of Muslim women being oppressed and subservient. It instead highlights prominent rulers who influenced Islamic civilization from Morocco to Nigeria and Iran, while their palace intrigues and stratagems made for gripping stories.” – Religion News Service
Tom Verde
Tom Verde is a writer and journalist. He holds a Master’s Degree in Islamic Studies and Christian-Muslim Relations from Hartford Seminary. He has lived and traveled in the Middle East, North Africa, and Europe and has written about religion, history, and culture for the New York Times, National Public Radio, Religion News Service, and AramcoWorld magazine.
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