Overview
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.
Full Product Details
Author: Asma Afsaruddin (Professor of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures,, Professor of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures,, Indiana University, Bloomington)
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:
Width: 23.90cm
, Height: 7.60cm
, Length: 18.00cm
Weight: 1.157kg
ISBN: 9780190638771
ISBN 10: 019063877
Pages: 648
Publication Date: 01 February 2024
Audience:
College/higher education
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
"""The Oxford Handbook of Islam and Women presents a timely and rich contribution that will leave a lasting impact on scholars and teachers in multiple disciplines connected to the study of religion, Islam, and women."" -- Raissa A. von Doetinchem de Rande, The University of Chicago Divinity School"
The Oxford Handbook of Islam and Women presents a timely and rich contribution that will leave a lasting impact on scholars and teachers in multiple disciplines connected to the study of religion, Islam, and women. * Raissa A. von Doetinchem de Rande, The University of Chicago Divinity School * The scholarly attention in these short but exceptionally rich contributions is impressive. * A. B. Al-Deen, emerita, DePaul University *
Author Information
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.
