Abstract
Abstract
The transmission of religious knowledge by premodern Muslim women has attracted increased attention in recent decades among academics as well as the lay public. This topic has implications well beyond women’s education alone. It is also of substantial interest to those concerned with Islamic feminism, women’s mobility and empowerment, and the social construction of gender. It is also an avenue for exploring the history of Muslim education, early and classical Muslim social history, and subfields of Islamic learning such as ḥadīth, law, Qurʾān and its exegesis, and Sufism. This chapter provides an overview of major trajectories in academic studies of the topic and also presents the history of women’s participation within a major arena of religious knowledge, namely ḥadīth transmission.
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