Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures

A large number of supplemental articles are to be found in this volume, as well as both subject and name indexes for the entire six-volume series. The supplemental articles are grouped according to the subject volume in which they were to have appeared, and alphabetically within each subject. Among the topics are a full series specific to the Caucasus; among them, jihad, mental health, courtship, drug use, NGO development, and film. Other topics include Adab literature from the 9th-13th centuries, modesty discourses in Canada, patronage and clientage in East Africa, and cottage industries in Turkey. Each of the articles is signed and concludes with a list of bibliography. This is the final volume of an impressive body of scholarship that began with Volume One in 2003. Annotation c2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Suad Joseph, Ph.D., Columbia University, New York, is Professor of Anthropology and Womens Studies at the University of California, Davis. She has published Intimate Selving in Arab Families: Gender, Self and Identity (Syracuse University Press, 1999), Gender and Citizenship in the Middle East (Syracuse University Press, 2000) and Gender and Power in the Middle East (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001).