Women and the Transmission of Religious Knowledge in Islam (Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization)

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Asma Sayeed
Cambridge University Press, 8/6/2013
EAN 9781107031586, ISBN10: 1107031583

Hardcover, 234 pages, 23.1 x 15.2 x 1.8 cm
Language: English

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 hadÃ„Â«th, this book analyzes dramatic chronological patterns in women's hadÃ„Â«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 'Ã„â‚¬'isha bint AbÃ„Â« 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 SunnÃ„Â« orthodoxies, Islamic law and hadÃ„Â«th studies make this work an important contribution to Muslim social and intellectual history of the early and classical eras.

1. A tradition invented
the female companions
2. The successors
3. The classical rebirth
4. Traditionalism and the culmination of women's hadÃ„Â«th transmission.