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Gender and Muslim construction of exegetical authority : a rereading of the classical genre of Qur'an commentary / by Aisha Geissinger.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Islamic history and civilization ; v. 117.Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (x, 319 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9789004294448
  • 9004294449
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Gender and Muslim construction of exegetical authorityDDC classification:
  • 297.1/25082 23
LOC classification:
  • BP136.485 .G424 2015eb
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  • online - EBSCO
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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.
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.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)1001098

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.

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.

Print version record.