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Gendering the Ḥadīth tradition : recentring the authority of Aisha, mother of the believers / Sofia Rehman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rehman, Sofia, author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Zarkashī, Muḥammad ibn Bahādur, 1344 or 1345-1392.
- Zarkashī, Muḥammad ibn Bahādur.
- Women in the Hadith.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (214 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2024.
- Summary:
- This work constitutes a major rethinking of the Muslim Hadith and jurisprudential traditions by evaluating how Aisha responded to hadiths that were circulating and being ascribed, often incorrectly, as authoritative statements of the Prophet Muhammad. From her critique of overwhelmingly male Companions of the Prophet, the study elicits a methodology for hadith criticism which is sure to challenge classical approaches. Sofia Rehman unearths the scholarly acumen of this great female Companion and mother of the believers, in her discussion of several legal positions which Aisha held in contradistinction to many of the male authorities among the Companions. This interdisciplinary study serves as a model for how the voice of Aisha may be given renewed life and significance in the way it re-centres her traditions and thinking.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Gendering the ḤadīthTradition: Recentring the Authority of Aisha, Mother of the Believers
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Notes on Transliteration, Abbreviations, and Dates
- Transliteration
- Abbreviations
- Dates
- Contents
- Introduction
- The Vision
- The Literature
- Resisting Labels: On Positionality
- Outline of the Book
- 1: The Woman, the Man, the Text
- Aisha bint Abū Bakr
- Reconstructions of Aisha
- Aisha's Age at Marriage to the Prophet Muḥammad
- The Slander against Aisha
- The Battle of the Camel: The Fitnah
- Aisha and the Construct of Muslimah Piety
- Introducing the Author: Imām al-Zarkashī
- Introducing the Text, al-Ijābali-Īrādimā Istadraktahu Aishaʿ Alā al-Ṣaḥābah-TheCorrective: Aisha's Rectification of the Companions
- Al-Ijāba,the Manuscript
- Al-Ijāba,the Text
- 2: The Classical Ḥadīth Tradition and Its Canonization
- The Classical Ḥadīth Tradition and the Science of Impugnment and Validation of Narrators
- The Principles of Impugnment and Validation (al-Jarḥwa al-Taʿdīl) in Ḥadīth
- A Brief History of the Science of Impugnment
- Canonization
- Canon as Canon I and Canon II
- Ḥadīth Canon Reconceptualized
- 3: Thinking Translation
- Translating the Ḥadīth
- Selecting the Text
- 4: Aisha the Jurist
- A Brief History of Law (Fiqh)
- Aisha and the Legal Tradition
- Aisha's Responses to ʿUmar b. al-Khatṭạ̄b
- Impugnment Due to Imaginary Indulgence (wahm)
- Aisha's Corrective with Reference to the Quran to Support Her Stance
- Ḥadīth 1
- Ḥadīth 7
- Aisha's Corrective Due to Her Superior Knowledge of the Sunnah
- Ḥadīth 2
- Ḥadīth 3
- Ḥadīth 4
- Aisha's Responses to ʿAbdullah b. ʿAbbās
- Ḥadīth 7.
- Aisha's Corrective with Reference to the Quran to Support Her Stance
- Ḥadīth 6
- Ḥadīth 8
- Aisha's Responses to ʿAbdullah b. ʿUmar
- Impugnment Due to Bad Memory (Sū'al-Ḥifdh)
- Ḥadīth 9
- Aisha's Corrective with Reference to the Sunnah to Support Her Stance
- Aisha's Response to ʿAbdullah b. ʿAmr b. al-ʿĀṣ Impugnment Due to Carelessness (Ghafla)
- Aisha's Response to Abū Saʿīd al-Khudrī
- Impugnment Due to Opposition from Reliable Authorities (Mukhālif al-Thiqāt)
- Aisha's Response to Zayd b. Thābit
- Shaybah b. ʿUthmān's Consulting Aisha
- The Emergent Juristic Framework of Aisha
- 5: Aisha the Ḥadīth Master
- The Case of Abū Hurayra
- Aisha's Critique of Abū Hurayra
- Impugnment Due to Carelessness in Narrating Prophetic Traditions (Ghafla)
- Ḥadīth 5
- Ḥadīth 10
- Ḥadīth 11
- 6: Aisha the Compassionate
- Aisha's Response to Faṭima bint Qayṣ
- An Ethic of Care as Ḥadīth Methodology
- Aisha's Intervention as an Ethic of Care
- 7: Aisha and the Ḥadīth Tradition An Emergent Methodology
- The Criteria
- 1. Measuring Ḥadīth Traditions against the Quran
- 2. Measuring Ḥadīth Traditions against the Prophetic Practise (Sunnah) and Other Prophetic Traditions Known to Aisha
- 3. Measuring Ḥadīth Traditions against Her Own Reason and Intellect
- 4. Upholding an Ethic of Care towards the Muslim Community
- The Nomenclature: Muṣtạlaḥ of Aisha
- Conclusion
- The Past and the Present
- The Future.
- Appendix: Selected Translation of al-Ijābali-Īrādimā Istadrakathu Aisha ʿAlā al Ṣahāba
- Aisha's Response to ʿAbdullah b. ʿAmr b. al-ʿĀṣ
- Aisha's Response to Abū Hurayra
- Bibliography
- English References
- Arabic References
- Index.
- Notes:
- Also issued in print: 2024.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on December 14, 2023).
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-195672-4
- 0-19-269079-5
- 0-19-269080-9
- OCLC:
- 1414163366
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