Gender and Legal Authority: An Examination of Early Juristic Opposition to Women's Hadīth Transmission
Abstract This article analyzes two cases of early juristic opposition to the legal authority of hadīth narrated by women. These cases appear as striking anomalies for two reasons: first, jurists broadly agreed that the gender of narrators in a chain of transmission was not a criterion in evaluating...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2009
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Islamic law and society
Year: 2009, Volume: 16, Issue: 2, Pages: 115-150 |
| Further subjects: | B
Women
B RIWAYA B SHAHADA B HADITH TRANSMISSION |
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