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1 online resource (x, 319 pages). |
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polychrome |
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Islamic history and civilization ; v. 117
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Islamic history and civilization ; v. 117.
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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. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Qurʼan -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Qurʼan. |
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Qurʼan. |
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Women transmitters of the Hadith.
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Women transmitters of the Hadith. |
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Hadith -- Authorities.
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Hadith -- Authorities. |
Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic books.
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Print version: Geissinger, Aisha. Gender and Muslim construction of exegetical authority 9789004269354 (DLC) 2015009391 (OCoLC)904036492 |
ISBN |
9789004294448 (electronic book) |
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9004294449 (electronic book) |
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9789004269354 (hardcover : alkaline paper) |
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9004269355 (hardcover : alkaline paper) |
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