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Gender and Muslim constructions of exegetical authority: a rereading of the classical genre of Qur'ān commentary

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Field name	Details
ISBN	9004269355 (hbk.)
ISBN	9789004269354 (hbk.)
Author	Geissinger, Aisha
Title	Gender and Muslim constructions of exegetical authority : a rereading of the classical genre of Qur'ān commentary / by Aisha Geissinger
Publisher	Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2015
Physical desc.	x, 319 p. ; 25 cm.
Series	Islamic history and civilization : studies and texts 117
Note	CBL illustrations: front cover (T 419, f. 40b).
Bibliography etc.	Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-307) and indexes.
Contents	Introduction: the classical genre of Quran commentary, exegetical authority, and gender -- Constructions of gender in pre-modern Quran commentaries -- From unwitting source to Quran commentator: gender and early transhistorical exegetical communities -- Negotiating interpretative authority in second/eighth and early third/ninth century exegesis: shifting historical contexts -- Hadith, 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 -- Conclusion.
Subject	Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- T 419
	Quran -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
	Hadith -- Authorities
	Women transmitters of the Hadith

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