02297nam a22003498a 4500 CR9781139381871 UkCbUP 20180107143411.0 m|||||o||d|||||||| cr|||||||||||| 120403s2013||||enk s ||1 0|eng|d 9781139381871 (ebook) 9781107031586 (hardback) 9781107529816 (paperback) UkCbUP UkCbUP rda BP173.4 .S33 2013 297.082 23 Sayeed, Asma, author. Women and the Transmission of Religious Knowledge in Islam / [electronic resource] Asma Sayeed. Women & the Transmission of Religious Knowledge in Islam Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013. 1 online resource (234 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Oct 2015). 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 hadīth, this book analyzes dramatic chronological patterns in women's hadīth 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 'Ā'isha bint Abī 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 Sunnī orthodoxies, Islamic law and hadīth studies make this work an important contribution to Muslim social and intellectual history of the early and classical eras. Print version: 9781107031586 Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139381871 Cambridge Books Online 236425 236425