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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Main Author: Wright, Brian (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2022
In: 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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