WOMEN AND THE TRANSMISSION OF RELIGIOUS KNOWLEDGE IN ISLAM by Asma Sayeed ( 9781107031586 )

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WOMEN AND THE TRANSMISSION OF RELIGIOUS KNOWLEDGE IN ISLAM

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ISBN 10:

1107031583

ISBN 13:

9781107031586

Publisher:

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

6 August, 2013

Series:

Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization

Pages:

234

Description:

Asma Sayeed's book traces the history of Muslim women's religious education over the course of nearly ten centuries.

Synopsis:

Asma Sayeed's book explores the history of women as religious scholars from the first decades of Islam through the early Ottoman period. Focusing on women's engagement with hadith, this book analyzes dramatic chronological patterns in women's hadith participation in terms of developments in Muslim social, intellectual and legal history. It challenges two opposing views: that Muslim women have been historically marginalized in religious education, and alternately that they have been consistently empowered thanks to early role models such as 'A'isha bint Abi Bakr, the wife of the Prophet Muhammad. This book is a must-read for those interested in the history of Muslim women as well as in debates about their rights in the modern world. The intersections of this history with topics in Muslim education, the development of Sunni orthodoxies, Islamic law and hadith studies make this work an important contribution to Muslim social and intellectual history of the early and classical eras.

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Cambridge University Press

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