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How twentieth-century women writers complicate official Islam, from the Egyptian-born Leila Ahmed, whose memoir A Border Passage asserts a "women's Islam" is passed down through oral tradition and example, to the Algerian writer and filmmaker Assia Djebar, whose Far from Medina celebrates Islamic female reciters, called rawilla. Forugh Farrokhzad's "Conquest of the Garden," an egalitarian revision of the Adam and Eve story written in mid-twentieth-century Iran.
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