Description
This multi-disciplinary work provides deep and wide-ranging coverage of issues relating to Islam and women. The Oxford Handbook of Islam and Women offers authoritative contributions from well-known scholars who provide sophisticated and cutting-edge analysis of topics such as Qur'anic hermeneutics regarding women's status and roles, analysis of hadiths (statements attributed to the Prophet Muhammad) that address women's issues, Islamic legal rulings as they pertain to women's legal and social rights, the scholarly and literary activities of Muslim women through time, and their activism in a number of contemporary Muslim-majority societies. The essays in this volume delineate a broad spectrum of views on these key issues and above all, emphasize the diversity present in Muslim women's lives, both in the pre-modern and modern periods. Close attention is paid to the historical and political contexts that have shaped their lives, framed by the thoughts and actions of key figures throughout Islamic history. Such an approach results in fine-grained studies of the lived realities of Muslim women across time and space that problematize reified assumptions about gender and agency in the context of Muslim-majority societies, assumptions that remain all too common.
Table of Contents
IntroductionAsma AfsaruddinFoundational Texts and Their InterpretationsChapter 1: The Qur'an and WomanHibba AbugideriChapter 2: Classical Exegeses of Qur'anic Verses concerning WomenHadia MubarakChapter 3: Women in the Hadith LiteratureFeryal SalemChapter 4: Modern Rereadings of the Qur'an through a Gendered LensAsma AfsaruddinChapter 5: Modern Rereadings of Hadith through a Gendered LensKhaled Abou El FadlWomen and Islamic LawChapter 6: Women's Rights and Duties in Classical Legal LiteratureMariam SheibaniChapter 7: Status of Women in Modern Family and Personal LawSohaira SiddiquiChapter 8: Modern Rereadings of Classical Legal Texts on WomenNatana DeLong Bas Deciphering Women's Lives: Women in History and TextsChapter 9: Early Muslim Women as Moral Paragons in the Classical LiteratureYasmin AminChapter 10: Women in Shi'i Islam as Moral ExemplarsMaria DakakeChapter 11: Women as Transmitters of KnowledgeAsma SayeedChapter 12: Muslim Women and Devotional LifeZahra Ayubi and Iman AbdoulkarimChapter 13: Women as Litt?rateurs in the Premodern PeriodSamer AliChapter 14: Women as Economic Actors in the Pre-Modern Islamic WorldAmira SonbolWomen's Lived Realities and their Religious and Social Activism in the Modern PeriodChapter 15: Women in the Mosque : Contesting Public Space and Religious AuthorityMarion Katz Chapter 16: Negotiating Motherhood, Religion, and Modern Lived RealitiesMargaret PappanoChapter 17: Women as Modern Heads-of-StateTamara SonnChapter 18: Women's Religious and Social Activism in Syrian, Lebanon, and PalestineElizabeth BrownsonChapter 19: Women's Religious and Social Activism in Egypt and North AfricaNermin AllamChapter 20: Women's Religious and Social Activism in IranSeema GolestanehChapter 21: Women's Religious and Social Activism in TurkeyChiara MaritatoChapter 22: Women's Religious and Social Activism in South AsiaElora Shehabuddin Chapter 23: Women's Religious and Social Activism in Southeast AsiaNelly van Doorn-HarderChapter 24: Muslim Women's Religious and Social Activism in ChinaMaria Jaschok and Man KeChapter 25: Muslim Women's Religious and Social Activism in South AfricaNina HoelChapter 26: Muslim Women's Religious and Social Activism in North AmericaJuliane HammerChapter 27: Muslim Women's Religious and Social Activism in western EuropeJeanette JouiliChapter 28: Women's Religious and Social Activism in Saudi Arabia and the GulfAlainna LiloiaModern Narratives of the Gendered Self: Women Writing about WomenChapter 29: Modern Representations of the Wives of the ProphetRuqayya KhanChapter 30: An Overview of Modern and Contemporary Muslim Feminist LiteratureMiriam CookeIslam, Women, and the Global Public ArenaChapter 31: Women's Sartorial Agency: The History and Politics of VeilingAnna PielaChapter 32: Muslim Women as a Cultural Trope: Global Discourses and the Politics of VictimhoodKatherine Bullock Index
