Marilyn Booth is Khalid bin Abdallah Al Saud Professor for the Study of the Contemporary Arab World, University of Oxford. Her most recent monograph, The Career and Communities of Zaynab Fawwaz: Feminist Thinking in Fin-de-siècle Egypt (2021), is amongst numerous publications on early feminism, translation, and Arabophone women’s writing in Egypt and Ottoman Syria. Initiator of the Ottoman Translation Studies Group, she edited Migrating Texts: Circulating Translations around the Ottoman Mediterranean (Edinburgh University Press, 2019). Translator of eighteen published works of fiction and memoir from the Arabic, she was co-winner of the 2019 Man Booker International Prize for her translation of Jokha Alharthi’s Celestial Bodies.

• Pearls Scattered: An introductionA women’s world history, in the world of Arabic letters: A reader’s viewFounding mothers, speaking sisters: Lineaments of community in historyWriterly pursuits: A compiler’s archiveA beckoning Compass and circulating lives: The Bustani encyclopedia and other nineteenth-century sourcesInterlocutors? Men authoring women’s history in the 1890sFraming a history of the present: or, Did the Pearls scatter to the World’s Fair?Violent romances: The bodily drama of patriarchal traumaConclusion: A world of women, feminist history and the importance of the feminine signatureAppendix I: Fawwaz’s Biographical Subjects: A ListAppendix II: TranslationsNotesBibliography

Marilyn Booth is to be lauded for her careful and sophisticated analysis of Zaynab Fawwaz’s biographical work Scattered Pearls. Thanks to her masterful study, Fawwaz and her literary production can now be recognized as constituting an important piece in the shaping of a ‘colonial modernity’ in the Arab world in the late nineteenth century and signaling an emerging Muslim feminist consciousness at this time. This important work will be read with avid interest by all those who are interested in the holistic history of fin-de-siècle Egypt that includes both men’s and women’s voices and in exploring its larger contemporary implications.

Marilyn Booth is Khalid bin Abdallah Al Saud Professor for the Study of the Contemporary Arab World, University of Oxford. Her most recent monograph, The Career and Communities of Zaynab Fawwaz: Feminist Thinking in Fin-de-siècle Egypt (2021), is amongst numerous publications on early feminism, translation, and Arabophone women’s writing in Egypt and Ottoman Syria. Initiator of the Ottoman Translation Studies Group, she edited Migrating Texts: Circulating Translations around the Ottoman Mediterranean (Edinburgh University Press, 2019). Translator of eighteen published works of fiction and memoir from the Arabic, she was co-winner of the 2019 Man Booker International Prize for her translation of Jokha Alharthi’s Celestial Bodies.

• Pearls Scattered: An introductionA women’s world history, in the world of Arabic letters: A reader’s viewFounding mothers, speaking sisters: Lineaments of community in historyWriterly pursuits: A compiler’s archiveA beckoning Compass and circulating lives: The Bustani encyclopedia and other nineteenth-century sourcesInterlocutors? Men authoring women’s history in the 1890sFraming a history of the present: or, Did the Pearls scatter to the World’s Fair?Violent romances: The bodily drama of patriarchal traumaConclusion: A world of women, feminist history and the importance of the feminine signatureAppendix I: Fawwaz’s Biographical Subjects: A ListAppendix II: TranslationsNotesBibliography

Marilyn Booth is to be lauded for her careful and sophisticated analysis of Zaynab Fawwaz’s biographical work Scattered Pearls. Thanks to her masterful study, Fawwaz and her literary production can now be recognized as constituting an important piece in the shaping of a ‘colonial modernity’ in the Arab world in the late nineteenth century and signaling an emerging Muslim feminist consciousness at this time. This important work will be read with avid interest by all those who are interested in the holistic history of fin-de-siècle Egypt that includes both men’s and women’s voices and in exploring its larger contemporary implications.

Marilyn Booth is Khalid bin Abdallah Al Saud Professor for the Study of the Contemporary Arab World, University of Oxford. Her most recent monograph, The Career and Communities of Zaynab Fawwaz: Feminist Thinking in Fin-de-siècle Egypt (2021), is amongst numerous publications on early feminism, translation, and Arabophone women’s writing in Egypt and Ottoman Syria. Initiator of the Ottoman Translation Studies Group, she edited Migrating Texts: Circulating Translations around the Ottoman Mediterranean (Edinburgh University Press, 2019). Translator of eighteen published works of fiction and memoir from the Arabic, she was co-winner of the 2019 Man Booker International Prize for her translation of Jokha Alharthi’s Celestial Bodies.

• Pearls Scattered: An introductionA women’s world history, in the world of Arabic letters: A reader’s viewFounding mothers, speaking sisters: Lineaments of community in historyWriterly pursuits: A compiler’s archiveA beckoning Compass and circulating lives: The Bustani encyclopedia and other nineteenth-century sourcesInterlocutors? Men authoring women’s history in the 1890sFraming a history of the present: or, Did the Pearls scatter to the World’s Fair?Violent romances: The bodily drama of patriarchal traumaConclusion: A world of women, feminist history and the importance of the feminine signatureAppendix I: Fawwaz’s Biographical Subjects: A ListAppendix II: TranslationsNotesBibliography

Marilyn Booth is to be lauded for her careful and sophisticated analysis of Zaynab Fawwaz’s biographical work Scattered Pearls. Thanks to her masterful study, Fawwaz and her literary production can now be recognized as constituting an important piece in the shaping of a ‘colonial modernity’ in the Arab world in the late nineteenth century and signaling an emerging Muslim feminist consciousness at this time. This important work will be read with avid interest by all those who are interested in the holistic history of fin-de-siècle Egypt that includes both men’s and women’s voices and in exploring its larger contemporary implications.