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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS Women And The Transmission Of Religious Knowledge In Islam by Asma Sayeed
Asma Sayeeds book explores the history of women as religious scholars from the first decades of Islam through the early Ottoman period. Focusing on womens engagement with hadith, this book analyzes dramatic chronological patterns in womens hadith 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 Aisha bint Abi 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 Sunni orthodoxies, Islamic law and hadith studies make this work an important contribution to Muslim social and intellectual history of the early and classical eras.show more