TY - BOOK AU - Geissinger,Aisha TI - Gender and Muslim construction of exegetical authority: a rereading of the classical genre of Qur'an commentary T2 - Islamic history and civilization SN - 9789004294448 AV - BP136.485 .G424 2015eb U1 - 297.1/25082 23 PY - 2015///] CY - Leiden, Boston PB - Brill KW - Qurʼan KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc KW - Coran KW - Critique, interprétation, etc KW - fast KW - Women transmitters of the Hadith KW - Hadith KW - Authorities KW - Ḥadīth KW - Autorités KW - RELIGION KW - Islam KW - General KW - bisacsh N1 - 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 N2 - 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 UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1001098 ER -