Women and the transmission of religious knowledge in Islam /
Asma Sayeed's book traces the history of Muslim women's religious education over the course of nearly ten centuries.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2013.
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Colección: | Cambridge studies in Islamic civilization.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | Asma Sayeed's book traces the history of Muslim women's religious education over the course of nearly ten centuries. Asma Sayeed's book explores the history of women as religious scholars from the first decades of Islam through the early Ottoman period (seventh to the seventeenth centuries). Focusing on women's engagement with ḥadīth, this book analyzes dramatic chronological patterns in women's ḥadīth participation in terms of developments in Muslim social, intellectual, and legal history. Drawing on primary and secondary sources, this work uncovers the historical forces that shaped Muslim women's public participation in religious learning. In the process, 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 'Ā'isha bint Abī Bakr, the wife of the Prophet Muḥammad. 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 Sunnī orthodoxies, Islamic law, and ḥadīth studies make this work an important contribution to Muslim social and intellectual history of the early and classical eras. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 220 pages) |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-211) and index. |
ISBN: | 9781107342002 1107342007 9781107345751 1107345758 9781139381871 1139381873 1107237785 9781107237780 1107529816 9781107529816 1107348250 9781107348257 1107349230 9781107349230 1107344506 9781107344501 |