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This book is not what I had imagined. There's not definitive list of queens by country or type so that one can compare them to each other. Instead this book is actually a discussion about the TYPES of power that the women had, and here and there you can pick out bits about certain queens. The entire first two chapters go on and on about the political masquerading of the late Bhutto and Sharif in Pakistan. The information regarding the acutal queens starts in the 3rd chapter. It seemed like Mernissi was trying to hide the information in the book from people who dont' want women writing about islam, because surely only someone who was genuinly interested would drag themselves through those first two chapters to get to the actual book, thereby saving herself from casual knee-jerk reaction critisism. I can find no other explanation for making me read that.I also found that the information was rather sparse, I wanted to know about the lifestyles, the personalities and the environment of these women in more detail. Mernissi only touches on these things here and there, giving us only tantalising glimpses but not the whole picture. All in all an important book because there's hardly anything else out there on the same subject, but I wish it had more information.
