Sovereign Women in a Muslim Kingdom
The Sultanahs of Aceh, 1641-1699
In Sovereign Women in a Muslim Kingdom, Sher Banu A. L. Khan provides a fresh perspective on the women who ruled in succession in Aceh for half the seventeenth century. Khan draws fresh evidence about the lives and reigns of the sultanahs from contemporary indigenous texts and the archives of the Dutch East India Company.The long reign of the sultanahs of Aceh is striking in a society where women rulers are usually seen as unnatural calamities, a violation of nature, or even forbidden in the name of religion. Sovereign Women in a Muslim Kingdom demonstrates how the sultanahs' rule was legitimized by both Islam and adat (indigenous customary l…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-5017-1385-9
- EAN: 9781501713859
- Produktnummer: 23100324
- Verlag: Cornell University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 312 S.
- Masse: H15.5 cm x B22.9 cm x D2.6 cm 460 g
- Gewicht: 460
- Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)
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