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? Lambert-Hurley is based in Sheffield, UK; Majchrowicz is based in Evanston, IL; and Sharma is based in Boston, MA ? This collection arose from a collaborative and multi-year research project which earned funding from the Leverhulme Trust. Entitled "Veiled Voyagers: Muslim Women Travellers from Asia and the Middle East" the project recovered, translated, annotated, and analyzed original texts gathered here and available in part on a website. ? The historical experiences of Muslim women offer a fascinating and understudied point of insight into the role of imperial, colonial, and global history. This collection not only recovers the voices of women from a broad range of languages but also provides the historical and cultural contexts necessary to understand the full import of what these women were trying to convey of their experiences in the world. ? Indiana University Press has a strong tradition of making space for the voices, perspectives, and experiences of Muslim women. This collection makes an important contribution to this tradition in its topic but perhaps more importantly it also encourages future scholarship in the field through the academic infrastructure which undergirds the texts included. ? The audience for the work is students and scholars of gender, Muslim identity, globalization, autobiographical and travel writing, women's studies, women's writing, colonial history, and religious history. ? The collection has an accompanying website (which is broader in scope to include both travel and autobiographical writing by Muslim women) at accessingmuslimlives.org.

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When thinking of intrepid travelers from past centuries, we don't usually put Muslim women at the top of the list. And yet, the stunning firsthand accounts in this collection completely upend preconceived notions of who was exploring the world.

Editors Siobhan Lambert-Hurley, Daniel Majchrowicz, and Sunil Sharma recover, translate, annotate, and provide historical and cultural context for the 17th- to 20th-century writings of Muslim women travelers in ten different languages. Queens and captives, pilgrims and provocateurs, these women are diverse. Their connection to Islam is wide-ranging as well, from the devout to those who distanced themselves from religion. What unites these adventurers is a concern for other women they encounter, their willingness to record their experiences, and the constant thoughts they cast homeward even as they traveled a world that was not always prepared to welcome them.

Perfect for readers interested in gender, Islam, travel writing, and global history, Three Centuries of Travel Writing by Muslim Women provides invaluable insight into how these daring women experienced the world?in their own voices.

Compiled by editors Siobhan Lambert-Hurley, Daniel Majchrowicz and Sunil Sharma, Three Centuries of Travel Writing by Muslim Women showcases writings from 45 Muslim women ? acquired through an extensive selection of writings in 10 languages, including Arabic, Turkish, Urdu, Punjabi, Indonesian, English and others. . . . What emerges is a group of women writers who were not afraid to voice their thoughts in the presence of authority figures and unfavourable circumstances. Three Centuries of Travel Writing by Muslim Women Writers is an enduring testament to just a few of the countless fascinating stories documented by women travellers throughout the ages.