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Women and the transmission of religious knowledge in Islam [electronic resource] / Asma Sayeed.

By: Series: Cambridge studies in Islamic civilizationPublication details: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.Description: 1 online resource (234 p.)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781107342002 (electronic bk.)
  • 1107342007 (electronic bk.)
  • 9781107345751 (electronic bk.)
  • 1107345758 (electronic bk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Women and the Transmission of Religious Knowledge in Islam.DDC classification:
  • 297.082 23
LOC classification:
  • BP173.4 .S33 2013eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Sources and Methodological Issues; Chapter 1 A Tradition Invented: The Female Companions; The Wives of Mu & Hdotbelow; ammad; 'Ā'isha; Umm Salama; Other Co-Wives; Other Female Relatives; Other Women Prominent in the Life of the First Muslim Community; Early Converts and Those Recognized for Service to Mu & Hdotbelow; ammad and His Household; Female Participants in Battles; Women's Pledge of Allegiance (Bay'at al-Nisā'); Seekers and Subjects of Fatwās; Less Known Women; Conclusion; Chapter 2: The Successors; Successors with Kinship-Derived Prominence.
Ascetic WomenThe Demise of Women's Participation; Comparison of Isnād Evidence with Additional Historical Sources; Explaining the Decline; Ri & Hdotbelow; las and Women's Travel; Conclusion; Chapter 3: The Classical Revival; Reasons for the Revival; Karīma al-Marwaziyya (ca. 365-463/975-1070); Fā & Tdotbelow; ima bint al- & Hdotbelow; asan b. 'Alī al-Daqqāq (391-480/1000-1088); Conclusion; Chapter 4: A Culmination in Traditionalism; Shuhda al-Kātiba (482-574/1089-1178); Women and & Hdotbelow; adīth Transmission in Mamlūk Damascus; Zaynab bint al-Kamāl (646-740/1248-1339); 'Ā'isha bint Mu & Hdotbelow.
Ammad (723-816/1323-1413)A Collective Portrait; The Ottoman Decline; Conclusion; Conclusions; Bibliography; Index.
Summary: Asma Sayeed's book traces the history of Muslim women's religious education over the course of nearly ten centuries.
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Asma Sayeed's book traces the history of Muslim women's religious education over the course of nearly ten centuries.

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Sources and Methodological Issues; Chapter 1 A Tradition Invented: The Female Companions; The Wives of Mu & Hdotbelow; ammad; 'Ā'isha; Umm Salama; Other Co-Wives; Other Female Relatives; Other Women Prominent in the Life of the First Muslim Community; Early Converts and Those Recognized for Service to Mu & Hdotbelow; ammad and His Household; Female Participants in Battles; Women's Pledge of Allegiance (Bay'at al-Nisā'); Seekers and Subjects of Fatwās; Less Known Women; Conclusion; Chapter 2: The Successors; Successors with Kinship-Derived Prominence.

Ascetic WomenThe Demise of Women's Participation; Comparison of Isnād Evidence with Additional Historical Sources; Explaining the Decline; Ri & Hdotbelow; las and Women's Travel; Conclusion; Chapter 3: The Classical Revival; Reasons for the Revival; Karīma al-Marwaziyya (ca. 365-463/975-1070); Fā & Tdotbelow; ima bint al- & Hdotbelow; asan b. 'Alī al-Daqqāq (391-480/1000-1088); Conclusion; Chapter 4: A Culmination in Traditionalism; Shuhda al-Kātiba (482-574/1089-1178); Women and & Hdotbelow; adīth Transmission in Mamlūk Damascus; Zaynab bint al-Kamāl (646-740/1248-1339); 'Ā'isha bint Mu & Hdotbelow.

Ammad (723-816/1323-1413)A Collective Portrait; The Ottoman Decline; Conclusion; Conclusions; Bibliography; Index.

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