The Oxford Handbook of Islam and Women Asma Afsaruddin1st Edition

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• ISBN-10: 0190638796
• ISBN-13: 9780190638795
• Author: Asma Afsaruddin

This multi-disciplinary work provides deep and wide-ranging coverage of issues relating to Islam and women. The Oxford Handbook of Islam and Women offers authoritative contributions from well-known scholars who provide sophisticated and cutting-edge analysis of topics such as Qur’anic hermeneutics regarding women’s status and roles, analysis of hadiths (statements attributed to the Prophet Muhammad) that address women’s issues, Islamic legal rulings as they pertain to women’s legal and social rights, the scholarly and literary activities of Muslim women through time, and their activism in a number of contemporary Muslim-majority societies. The essays in this volume delineate a broad spectrum of views on these key issues and above all, emphasize the diversity present in Muslim women’s lives, both in the pre-modern and modern periods. Close attention is paid to the historical and political contexts that have shaped their lives, framed by the thoughts and actions of key figures throughout Islamic history. Such an approach results in fine-grained studies of the lived realities of Muslim women across time and space that problematize reified assumptions about gender and agency in the context of Muslim-majority societies, assumptions that remain all too common.

Table contents:

A. Deciphering Muslim Women’s Lives: Religion, Agency, and Diversity
B. Foundational Texts and Their Interpretations
1. The Qur’ān and Woman
2. Classical Exegeses on Key Qur’ānic Verses Concerning Women
3. Women in the Ḥadīth Literature
4. Modern Rereadings of the Qur’ān through a Gendered Lens
5. Modern Rereadings of the Ḥadīth through a Gendered Lens
C. Women and Islamic Law
6. Marriage, Divorce, and Inheritance in Classical Islamic Law and Premodern Practice
7. Status of Muslim Women in Modern Family and Personal Law
8. Women’s Rights and Duties in Classical Legal Texts: Modern Rereadings
D. Deciphering Women’s Lives: Women in History and Texts
9. Early Muslim Women as Moral Paragons in Classical Islamic Literature: al-Mubashsharāt bi-l-janna
10. Women as Moral Exemplars in Twelver Shī‘īsm
11. Women as Transmitters of Knowledge
12. Muslim Women and Devotional Life
13. Women as Littérateurs in the Premodern Period
14. Women as Economic Actors in the Premodern Islamic World
E. Women’s Lived Realities and Their Religious and Social Activism in the Modern Period
15. Women in the Mosque: Contesting Public Space and Religious Authority
16. Negotiating Motherhood, Religion, and Modern Lived Realities
17. Women as Modern Heads of State
18. Women’s Religious and Social Activism in Palestine, Lebanon, and Syria
19. Women’s Religious and Social Activism in Egypt and North Africa
20. Women’s Religious and Social Activism in Iran
21. Women’s Religious and Social Activism in Turkey
22. Women’s Religious and Social Activism in South Asia
23. Women’s Religious and Social Activism in Southeast Asia
24. Muslim Women’s Religious and Social Activism in China
25. Muslim Women’s Religious and Social Activism in South Africa
26. Muslim Women’s Religious and Social Activism in the United States
27. Muslim Women’s Religious and Social Activism in Western Europe
28. Women’s Religious and Social Activism in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf Countries
F. Modern Narratives of the Gendered Self: Women Writing about Women
29. Modern Representations of the Wives of the Prophet Muḥammad
30. Modern and Contemporary Muslim Feminist Literature: An Overview
G. Islam, Women, and the Global Public Arena
31. Women’s Sartorial Agency: The History and Politics of Veiling
32. Muslim Women as a Cultural Trope: Global Discourses and the Politics of Victimhood

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