# Forgotten Queens of Islam CB, Vol. 1

By **Fatema Mernissi**

- ISBN-13: 9780816624386
- Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
- Pages: 229
- Published: 14 Apr 2000

## About this book

When Benazir Bhutto became prime minister of Pakistan in 1988, many claimed that it was a blasphemous assault on Islamic tradition since no Muslim state, critics alleged, had ever been governed by a woman. But Fatima Mernissi examined fifteen centuries of Islamic history and discovered that the critics were wrong. Reco

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