Endnotes: chapter three

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1. Nahj al-Balagha, with comments by Muhammad `Abduh (Cairo, n.d.), 3:206.
2. Shams al-Din al-Sarakhsi, Kitab al-Mabsut (Beirut, 1986), 4:192.
3. ibid. 3:63. This saying is attributed also to Ibn al-Muqaffa` (`Uyun al-akhbar, 4:78).
4. Rasa'il al-Jahiz (Cairo, 1964), 1:196.
5. `Uyun al-akhbar, 4:4.
6. Abu `Amr al-Jahiz, al-Bayan wa al-tabyin, ed. `Abd al-Salam Harun (Cairo, 1989), 2:244.
7. Ibn `Abd Rabbih, al-`Iqd al-farid, ed. Muhammad Sa`id al-Aryan (Cairo, n.d.), 7:96.
8. ibid. 7:119, in the chapter "The Deceit and Unfaithfulness of Women."
9. ibid. 7:96.
10. ibid. 7:106, in the chapter Sifat al-mar'a al-su' ("Characteristics of an evil woman"!).
11. ibid. 7:109.
12. ibid.
13. ibid. 7:110.
14. Abbas Muhammad al-Aqqad, al-Mar'a fi al-Qur'an, p.88. The writer does not tell us when and where that western writer expressed this call to adopt polygamy.
15. ibid. p.38.
16. Qasim Amin, al-Mar'a al-jadida (Cairo, 1987), p.45. The most important book written by Qasim Amin on the issue of women was Tahrir al-mar'a (The Liberation of Women), which was published in 1891 in Cairo.
17. Qasim Amin, al-Mar'a al-jadida, p.54ff.

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