TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sayeed,Asma
TI  - Women and the transmission of religious knowledge in Islam
T2  - Cambridge studies in Islamic civilization
SN  - 9781107342002 (electronic bk.)
AV  - BP173.4 .S33 2013eb
U1  - 297.082 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Muḥammad,
KW  - Women in Islam
KW  - History
KW  - Women scholars
KW  - Islamic Empire
KW  - RELIGION / Islam / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - Asma Sayeed's book traces the history of Muslim women's religious education over the course of nearly ten centuries
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