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Author Geissinger, Aisha, author.

Title Gender and Muslim construction of exegetical authority : a rereading of the classical genre of Qur'an commentary / by Aisha Geissinger.

Publication Info. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2015]
©2015

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Description 1 online resource (x, 319 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Islamic history and civilization ; v. 117
Islamic history and civilization ; v. 117.
Summary In Gender and Muslim Constructions of Exegetical Authority, Aisha Geissinger examines quotations of exegetical materials attributed to female figures in classical Sunnī Quran commentaries, and analyses their significance within the pre-modern genre of tafsīr.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-307) and index.
Contents Constructions of gender in pre-modern Quran commentaries -- From unwitting source to Quran commentator: gender and early transhistorical exegetical communities -- Negotiating interpretive authority in second/eighth and early third/ninth century exegesis: shifting historical contexts -- Ḥadīth, hermeneutics and gender in the third/ninth and fourth/tenth centuries -- Constructing the abode of the mothers of the believers: gendered exegetical gazes -- (Re)constructions of the sacred past, gender, and exegesis: some medieval trajectories.
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Subject Qurʼan -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Qurʼan.
Qurʼan.
Women transmitters of the Hadith.
Women transmitters of the Hadith.
Hadith -- Authorities.
Hadith -- Authorities.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Geissinger, Aisha. Gender and Muslim construction of exegetical authority 9789004269354 (DLC) 2015009391 (OCoLC)904036492
ISBN 9789004294448 (electronic book)
9004294449 (electronic book)
9789004269354 (hardcover : alkaline paper)
9004269355 (hardcover : alkaline paper)