Gender and Muslim constructions of exegetical authority : a rereading of the classical genre of Qur'ān commentary /

Gender and Muslim constructions of exegetical authority : a rereading of the classical genre of Qur'ān commentary /

A number of classical Sunnī Quran commentaries quote several different types of exegetical materials attributed to a few female figures from the first century A.H/seventh century C.E.-āthār, ḥadīths, legal opinions and variant readings, as well as lines of poetry. In Gender and Muslim Constructions...

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Main Author: Geissinger, Aisha.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Boston ; Leiden : Brill, [2015]

Series: Islamic History and Civilization 117.
Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2015, ISBN: 9789004287464.

Subjects:

Qurʼan > Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Qurʼan.
Women transmitters of the Hadith.
Hadith > Authorities.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

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Call Number: BP136.485 .G424 2015

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Introduction: The Classical Genre of Quran Commentary, Exegetical Authority, and Gender
  • 1 Constructions of Gender in Pre-modern Quran Commentaries
  • 2 From Unwitting Source to Quran Commentator: Gender and Early Transhistorical Exegetical Communities
  • 3 Negotiating Interpretive Authority in Second/Eighth and Early Third/Ninth Century Exegesis: Shifting Historical Contexts
  • 4 Ḥadīth, Hermeneutics and Gender in the Third/Ninth and Fourth/Tenth Centuries
  • 5 Constructing the Abode of the Mothers of the Believers: Gendered Exegetical Gazes
  • 6 (Re)constructions of the Sacred Past, Gender, and Exegesis: Some Medieval Trajectories
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index of Quranic References
  • General Index.