Teaching Women to Write: Weaponizing Ḥadīth Against Colonialism
This article traces the use of a ḥadīth prohibiting women’s literacy during the colonial period. Although rejected by most ḥadīth scholars and ignored by jurists, it gained prominence in the second half of the nineteenth century through the works of scholars who weaponized it as a response to coloni...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Brill
2022
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Die Welt des Islams
Year: 2022, Volume: 62, Issue: 1, Pages: 78-108 |
Further subjects: | B
Women’s Education
B Ḥadīth B Islamic Law B Colonialism B Egypt B South Asia |
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