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Women and the Transmission of Religious Knowledge in Islam , written by , Asma Sayeed

Women and the Transmission of Religious Knowledge in Islam , written by , Asma Sayeed New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013. Pp. 220+10, $28.99 (paperback), isbn : 9781107529816, $95.00 (hardcover) isbn : 9781107031586. Asma Sayeed opens the final chapter of her pioneering study, Women and the Transmission of Religious Knowledge in Islam , with the words of Muḥammad bin ʿAlī al-Shawkānī (d. 1834), “it has not been transmitted on the authority of any scholar that he rejected the tradition of a woman on the basis of that it was narrated by a woman.” In many ways, this statement encapsulates a wide range of scholarly and popular misunderstandings that Sayeed wants to address. Observers of Islam often assume that Islam negates women access to education, and that the Muslim women only moved into educational realms after the introduction of modernist thought in Muslim majority societies during the nineteenth century. By contrast, traditional Muslims often posit that their religion has always provided access for women’s intellectual engagement. Although not a “traditionalist” in strict sense of the term—rather a modernist and a reformist, al-Shawkānī expresses this view as a counter-argument to from within Islam by asserting that Islam has never segregated women on the basis of gender when it comes to the transmission of knowledge. Encountering http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Sociology of Islam Brill

Women and the Transmission of Religious Knowledge in Islam , written by , Asma Sayeed

Kooria, Mahmood
Sociology of Islam , Volume 4 (3): 307 – Jul 5, 2016
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© 2016 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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Book Reviews
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2213-140X
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2213-1418
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10.1163/22131418-00403005
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New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013. Pp. 220+10, $28.99 (paperback), isbn : 9781107529816, $95.00 (hardcover) isbn : 9781107031586. Asma Sayeed opens the final chapter of her pioneering study, Women and the Transmission of Religious Knowledge in Islam , with the words of Muḥammad bin ʿAlī al-Shawkānī (d. 1834), “it has not been transmitted on the authority of any scholar that he rejected the tradition of a woman on the basis of that it was narrated by a woman.” In many ways, this statement encapsulates a wide range of scholarly and popular misunderstandings that Sayeed wants to address. Observers of Islam often assume that Islam negates women access to education, and that the Muslim women only moved into educational realms after the introduction of modernist thought in Muslim majority societies during the nineteenth century. By contrast, traditional Muslims often posit that their religion has always provided access for women’s intellectual engagement. Although not a “traditionalist” in strict sense of the term—rather a modernist and a reformist, al-Shawkānī expresses this view as a counter-argument to from within Islam by asserting that Islam has never segregated women on the basis of gender when it comes to the transmission of knowledge. Encountering

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