RE-FIGURING TRADITIONAL ARCHETYPES OF MEDIEVAL MUSLIM WOMEN’S POSITION IN HISTORY

the historical context, while making the Eastern history especially about women. The third world’s history has always been misinterpreted, exaggerated and scandalized by the Universal historiography, a professional way of writing history which labels the third world people as ahistorical, the nations without any history. So, the Eurocentric accounts create historical distortions within the false historical facts. Conversely, postmodernity disobeys the traditional way of writing history and brings out the existed narratives with a new form. It lays emphasis on the deconstructions and re-historicization of the past using new ways and means. As the glorious past is destructed in the Eurocentric narratives, so the postmodern narrative strategy entails its rebirth to repair what has been lost so far. A postmodern condition, indeed, relies on the multiplicity of truth and history as well. Therefore, using the postmodern prism of ‘refiguring history’ this paper is concerned with renewal of Eurocentric narratives about the sixteenth and seventeenth century’s women depiction of Muslim women in general. The research methodology used for this research paper is qualitative and exploratory. In this endeavour, an attempt has been made in this paper to shed light on the traditional archetypes of Medieval Muslim