Oxford Handbook of Islam and Women

The Oxford Handbook of Islam and Women offers authoritative contributions from well-known scholars whose sophisticated and cutting-edge research explores the diversity of Muslim women's lives and their accomplishments, challenging common stereotypes that are particularly prevalent in the West.

List of contents

• Introduction


• Asma Afsaruddin


• Foundational Texts and Their Interpretations


• Chapter 1: The Qur'an and Woman


• Hibba Abugideri


• Chapter 2: Classical Exegeses of Qur'anic Verses concerning Women


• Hadia Mubarak


• Chapter 3: Women in the Hadith Literature


• Feryal Salem


• Chapter 4: Modern Rereadings of the Qur'an through a Gendered Lens


• Asma Afsaruddin


• Chapter 5: Modern Rereadings of Hadith through a Gendered Lens


• Khaled Abou El Fadl


• Women and Islamic Law


• Chapter 6: Women's Rights and Duties in Classical Legal Literature


• Mariam Sheibani


• Chapter 7: Status of Women in Modern Family and Personal Law


• Sohaira Siddiqui


• Chapter 8: Modern Rereadings of Classical Legal Texts on Women


• Natana DeLong Bas


• Deciphering Women's Lives: Women in History and Texts


• Chapter 9: Early Muslim Women as Moral Paragons in the Classical Literature


• Yasmin Amin


• Chapter 10: Women in Shi'i Islam as Moral Exemplars


• Maria Dakake


• Chapter 11: Women as Transmitters of Knowledge


• Asma Sayeed


• Chapter 12: Muslim Women and Devotional Life


• Zahra Ayubi and Iman Abdoulkarim


• Chapter 13: Women as Littérateurs in the Premodern Period


• Samer Ali


• Chapter 14: Women as Economic Actors in the Pre-Modern Islamic World


• Amira Sonbol


• Women's Lived Realities and their Religious and Social Activism in the Modern Period


• Chapter 15: Women in the Mosque : Contesting Public Space and Religious Authority


• Marion Katz


• Chapter 16: Negotiating Motherhood, Religion, and Modern Lived Realities


• Margaret Pappano


• Chapter 17: Women as Modern Heads-of-State


• Tamara Sonn


• Chapter 18: Women's Religious and Social Activism in Syrian, Lebanon, and Palestine


• Elizabeth Brownson


• Chapter 19: Women's Religious and Social Activism in Egypt and North Africa


• Nermin Allam


• Chapter 20: Women's Religious and Social Activism in Iran


• Seema Golestaneh


• Chapter 21: Women's Religious and Social Activism in Turkey


• Chiara Maritato


• Chapter 22: Women's Religious and Social Activism in South Asia


• Elora Shehabuddin


• Chapter 23: Women's Religious and Social Activism in Southeast Asia


• Nelly van Doorn-Harder


• Chapter 24: Muslim Women's Religious and Social Activism in China


• Maria Jaschok and Man Ke


• Chapter 25: Muslim Women's Religious and Social Activism in South Africa


• Nina Hoel


• Chapter 26: Muslim Women's Religious and Social Activism in North America


• Juliane Hammer


• Chapter 27: Muslim Women's Religious and Social Activism in western Europe


• Jeanette Jouili


• Chapter 28: Women's Religious and Social Activism in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf


• Alainna Liloia


• Modern Narratives of the Gendered Self: Women Writing about Women


• Chapter 29: Modern Representations of the Wives of the Prophet


• Ruqayya Khan


• Chapter 30: An Overview of Modern and Contemporary Muslim Feminist Literature


• Miriam Cooke


• Islam, Women, and the Global Public Arena


• Chapter 31: Women's Sartorial Agency: The History and Politics of Veiling


• Anna Piela


• Chapter 32: Muslim Women as a Cultural Trope: Global Discourses and the Politics of Victimhood


• Katherine Bullock


• Index

About the author

Asma Afsaruddin is Class of 1950 Herman B. Wells Endowed Professor and Professor of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures in the Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington. She is the author and editor of eight books, including The First Muslims: History and Memory (2008); her award-winning Striving in the Path of God: Jihad and Martyrdom in Islamic Thought (OUP, 2013); Contemporary Issues in Islam (2015); and Jihad: What Everyone Needs to Know (OUP, 2022). She was named a Carnegie Scholar in 2005 and was inducted into the Johns Hopkins Society of Scholars in 2019.

Summary

The Oxford Handbook of Islam and Women offers authoritative contributions from well-known scholars whose sophisticated and cutting-edge research explores the diversity of Muslim women's lives and their accomplishments, challenging common stereotypes that are particularly prevalent in the West.

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The scholarly attention in these short but exceptionally rich contributions is impressive

Product details

• Authors: Afsaruddin , Afsaruddin, Asma (Professor of Middle Eastern Lang Afsaruddin
• Assisted by: Asma Afsaruddin (Editor), Afsaruddin Asma (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.11.2023
• EAN: 9780190638771
• ISBN: 978-0-19-063877-1
• No. of pages: 648
• Series: Oxford Handbooks
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; Islam, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, RELIGION / Islam / General, RELIGION / Sexuality & Gender Studies, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls, Religious aspects of sexuality, gender and relationships, Religious aspects of sexuality, gender & relationships