Participant Info
- First Name
- Tara
- Last Name
- Stephan
- Country
- United States
- State
- VA Virginia
- tstephan@hsc.edu
- Affiliation
- Hampden-Sydney College
- Website URL
- Keywords
- Islam, medieval history, women and gender, literature, social and cultural history, intellectual history, the mediterranean, minority religious groups, law and society
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
I am a scholar of women and gender in medieval Islam, specifically representations of gender, class, and religion in different genres of medieval texts. I am also interested in minority religious groups living under Muslim rule, the space of the Mediterranean, and tropes in medieval literature more broadly.
- Recent Publications
“Waste, Excess, and Obsession in the Mamluk Harem,” Mamluk Studies Review. In Press.
“Writing the Past: Ancient Egypt Through the Lens of Medieval Islamic Thought,” in Arabic Humanities, Islamic Thought: Essays in Honor of Everett K. Rowson, edited by Joseph E. Lowry and Shawkat M. Toorawa. Leiden: Brill, 2017.
Review of Coming of Age in Medieval Egypt: Female Adolescence, Jewish Law, and Ordinary Culture, by Eve Krakowsi. Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies. In press.
Review of Advice for the Sultan: Prophetic Voices and Secular Politics in Medieval Islam, by Neguin Yavari. Journal of Islamic Studies 29, no. 2: 267-269.
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- @tdstephan
- Country Focus
- Egypt
- Expertise by Geography
- Mediterranean, Middle East
- Expertise by Chronology
- Medieval, Pre-17th century
- Expertise by Topic
- Gender, Religion, Sexuality, Women
