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Woman, Man, and God in Modern Islam

Award-winning historian Theodore Friend recently set out alone across Asia and the Middle East on a quest to understand firsthand the life situations of women in Indonesia, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Turkey. Woman, Man, and God in Modern Islam recounts Friend’s remarkable journey and relates hundreds of encounters and conversations with people he met along the way.

Commingling a deep respect for Islam and his faith in the potential of women to change their worlds, Friend presents an open, exploratory outsider’s perspective on women in five very different Islamic cultures — timely fare for all who wish to broaden their world horizons.

Theodore Friend, Philip Jenkins

Theodore Friend (1931–2020) was a senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute and a former president of Swarthmore College. He published several books, including Woman, Man, and God in Modern Islam, Indonesian Destinies, and Between Two Empires: The Ordeal of the Philippines, 1929–1946, which won the Bancroft Prize in American History, Foreign Policy, and Diplomacy.  

Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.