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Women and the Transmission of Religious Knowledge in Islam

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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 had?th, this book analyzes dramatic chronological patterns in women's had?th 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 '?'isha bint Ab? 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 Sunn? orthodoxies, Islamic law and had?th studies make this work an important contribution to Muslim social and intellectual history of the early and classical eras.

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ISBN: 9781107529816
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Author: Asma University of California, Los Angeles Sayeed
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Paperback
Pagination: 234 pages
Series: Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization
Genres: Islamic life and practice
Gender studies: women and girls
Social groups: religious groups and communities