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The Harem and the Revolutionary Gentlewomen of Egypt
Because Muslim women in Egypt have controlled their property, or rather because some of the wealthy women controlled their property, we find women as well as men setting up charitable endowments which are known as awqaf [plural]. A waqf [singular] is…
Tags: Afaf Lutfi al-Sayyid Marsot, anthropology, charity, colonialism, culture, Egypt, family, gender, harem, hejab, imperialism, Islam, marriage, nationalism, Orientalism, revolution, seclusion, slavery, veil, waqf, women