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Women in classical Islamic law : a survey of the sources

Title: Women in classical Islamic law : a survey of the sources / by Susan A. Spectorsky.
Author: Spectorsky, Susan A. (Susan Ann)
Publication: Leiden ; Boston, Mass. : Brill, 2010.

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Description

x, 223 pages; 25 cm.

Summary

Drawing on legal and hadith texts from the formative and classical periods of Islamic legal history, this book offers an overview of the development of the questions prominent jurists asked and answered about womenʹs issues. All assumed a woman would marry and thus the book concentrates on womenʹs family life. The introduction establishes the historical framework within which the jurists worked. A chapter on Qurʹan verses devoted to womenʹs lives is followed by chapters on marriage and divorce which compare the views of jurists during the formative period. The fourth chapter describes the evolution from the formative to the classical periods. The fifth uses material from both periods to describe the array of legal opinion about other aspects of womenʹs lives in and outside their homes. Throughout, juristsʹ opinions are juxtaposed with relevant quotations from contemporaneous hadith collections. -- Back cover.

Series Statement

Themes in Islamic studies ; v. 5

Uniform Title

Themes in Islamic studies ; v. 5.

Subject

Genre/Form

History.
Sources.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

Women in the Qur'åan -- Marriage in the formative period -- Divorce in the formative period -- From the formative to the classical periods -- Women's lives.

ISBN

9789004174351
9004174354
9789004211513
9004211519

LCCN

2009035416

OCLC

ocn434127088
434127088
SCSB-1544671

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library