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Geissinger, Aisha,

Gender and Muslim construction of exegetical authority : a rereading of the classical genre of Qur'an commentary / by Aisha Geissinger. - 1 online resource (x, 319 pages) - Islamic history and civilization ; v. 117 . - Islamic history and civilization ; v. 117. .

Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-307) and index.

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.

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.

ISBN: 9789004294448 9004294449

Source: 792518 MIL

Subjects--Uniform Titles:
Qurʼan--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Coran--Critique, interprétation, etc.
Qurʼan

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Women transmitters of the Hadith.
Hadith--Authorities.
Ḥadīth--Autorités.
RELIGION--Islam--General.
Hadith--Authorities
Women transmitters of the Hadith

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

LC Class. No.: BP136.485 / .G424 2015eb

Dewey Class. No.: 297.1/25082