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Moroccan sociologist and Koranic scholar, Fatima Mernissi ("Mur-NEE-see")
Her new book "Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood" is due out in the summer of 1994.
Moroccan sociologist and Koranic scholar, Fatima Mernissi ("Mur-NEE-see"). Her new book explores how the sacred texts of Islam are used both by feminists and defenders of democracy as well as the violent fundamentalists which oppose them: "Islam & Democracy" (Addison-Wesley). An earlier book, "The Veil and the Male Elite" (Addison-Wesley) was a feminist interpretation of Women's rights in Islam. Her new book, due out in the summer of 1994 is "Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood".
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