Books by Fadwa El Guindi

Presents an anthropological analysis of Islam as experienced by Muslims. This work builds a conceptual model of Islam as a whole, while travelling along a comparative path of biblical, Egyptological, ethnographic, poetic, scriptural and visual materials. It captures the rhythm of Islam weaving through the lives of Muslim women and men.

This text challenges the European dichotomy of space into public and private, and morality into honour and shame, and shows how these notions have mistakenly been applied to Arab women's use of the veil and, more broadly, to their position in society.