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Getting God's Ear: Women, Islam, and Healing in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf.(Book Review)
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by Eleanor Abdella Doumato New York: Columbia University Press, 2000.
In this fascinating book, Eleanor Doumato explores the obliteration of Saudi women from public and ritual space and asks why the situation of women in Saudi Arabia is different from that in other regions of the Gulf, such as Bahrain and Oman. She notes that the degree to which women are segregated is much higher in Saudi Arabia and that there is a dearth of women's religious activities. Clearly identifying the rise of what she terms "Wahhabism" as the cause behind the changes in women's position in that ...
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