Studies in the Short Fiction of Mahfouz and Idris,, 8

submissive, 22, 112, 116, 132, 133, 154, 155, 161, 208

submissiveness, 114

subordination, 16, 64

subservience, 25, 28, 37, 43, 45, 87, 90, 117, 128, 135, 142, 144, 167, 196, 200, 215

Sugar Streets,, 12, 80, 143–145, 204, 211

Sulaiman, Ali Bey, 198

sultana, 105, 108, 109

Syed, Ibrahim, 79

Talbot, Mary, 83

tendencies, 45

homosexual, 45

terrorize, 85

Testament, 23, 37, 49, 104, 153, 160, 170, 174, 175

Old, 37, 104, 153

New, 23, 153, 160, 170, 174, 175

Thousand and One Nights,, 3

Thulathiyya,, 80

tradition, 3, 4, 10, 17, 20, 24, 33, 35, 40, 44, 48, 56, 65, 96, 97, 105, 143, 150–152, 170, 175, 177, 178, 193, 213, 214

Islamic, 44, 46, 48, 96, 97, 143, 150, 151, 177, 212, 214

Middle Eastern, 40

transgression, 122, 160, 210

trap, 31, 53, 63, 124, 178

trapped, 18, 21, 40, 49, 62, 74, 85, 87, 89, 91, 103, 116, 118, 120, 124, 172, 190

trauma, 119

psychological, 119

Turkey, 192

umma, 156, 210

unmanly, 117

Unveiling Islam,, 3

veil, 33, 35–37, 47, 50, 51, 70, 77, 82, 150, 151, 174, 177, 210, 216

venom, 54, 120

victim, 56, 78, 83, 84, 91, 101, 106, 125, 134, 156, 167, 211, 216

Wadud, Amina, 27, 186

War and Peace,, 80

wedding receptions, 35

Wedding Song (see also Afrah al-Qubbah),, 200, 220

West, Rebecca, 16

Western Representations of the Muslim Woman,, 104, 217

Westerners, 3–5, 27, 33, 34, 36, 37, 49, 50, 73, 76, 99, 141, 151, 177, 213, 217

Whispers of Madness,, 10

whore, 52, 66, 67, 132, 166, 201, 203

wickedness, 52, 147, 161, 176

wife, passim

devoted, 94

Williams, Joan, 21, 87

wings, 61, 100

Winter, Bronwyn, 7

Wittig, Monique, 18

Wollstonecraft, Mary, 20

woman’s movement, 21

womanhood, 20, 41, 103, 128, 168

womanizer, 128, 131, 132

Women and Gender in Islam,, 25, 32, 64, 104

Women and Gender in Islam: Historical Roots of a Modern Debate,, 104

Women and Philosophy,, 17