Women in the Quran, Traditions and Interpretation

• Main Author: Stowasser, Barbara Freyer 1935- (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: New York OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 1994
• Subjects: Qurʼan > Biography; Women in Islam; Women in the Koran
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• Physical Description: viii, 206 pages 25 cm
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index
• ISBN: 0195084802; 9780195084801

Women and the Qur'an, Traditions, and Interpretation presents the Qur'anic revelations on female figures associated with God's prophets from Adam to Muhammad. Revealed narratives and legislation are then pursued through their medieval, modern, and contemporary interpretations. The theological exegetic sources here chosen, all Sunni, include the major classical works as well as, for the modern period, examples of modernist, traditionalist, and fundamentalist exegesis. For Hadith materials beyond the theological tafsir, Stowasser analyzes both popular narratives of the "tales of the prophets" genre and also representative samples of the classical historical and legal Hadith. A close reading of modern sources, including by lay writers, shows the waning influence of these traditional materials in present-day Islamic thought