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 seventeen…
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 seventeen…
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…
Conceptual analysis. Definition and scope of wasaṭiyyah -- Review of the source evidence -- A round-up of modern opinion -- Hallmarks and types of extremism -- Manifestations of wasaṭiyyah -- Identification of wasaṭiyyah -- Institutional developments -- Thematic perspectives. Mo…
"Demonstrating the central role of third/ninth century hadith scholars in the articulation of Sunni Islam, this book bases its findings largely upon the analysis of multiple biographical dictionaries, such as al-Dhahabi's Tadhkirat al-huffaz, Ibn Sa'd's Kitab al-tabaqat al-kabir…