TY  - BOOK
AU  - Geissinger,Aisha
TI  - Gender and Muslim Constructions of Exegetical Authority: A Rereading of the Classical Genre of Qurʾān Commentary
T2  - Islamic History and Civilization Series
SN  - 9789004294448
AV  - BP136.485.G424 2015 
U1  - 297.1/25082 
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Boston
PB  - BRILL
KW  - Qurʼan-Criticism, interpretation, etc
KW  - Women transmitters of the Hadith
KW  - Hadith-Authorities
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Journal Abbreviations -- Introduction: The Classical Genre of Quran Commentary, Exegetical Authority, and Gender -- Chapter 1 Constructions of Gender in Pre-modern Quran Commentaries -- 1 What is a Mukhannath? Gender in Late Antiquity -- 2 Gender in Quran Commentaries from the Formative and Medieval Periods -- 2.1 Q 4:1-"And We created you from a single soul . . ." -- 2.2 Q 4:34-"Men are in charge of women . . ." -- 2.3 Q 43:18-"Someone who is brought up amongst trinkets . . ." -- 3 Gender, Authority and the Wives of Muḥammad -- 3.1 Q 33:6-". . . as his wives are their mothers . . ." -- 3.2 Q 33:34-"Remember what is recited in your homes . . ." -- Chapter 2 From Unwitting Source to Quran Commentator: Gender and Early Transhistorical Exegetical Communities -- 1 Transhistorical Exegetical Communities -- 2 Gender and Exegesis in the Second/Eighth Century -- 2.1 Āthār-Based Exegetical Works -- 2.1.1 The Tafsīr Sufyān al-Thawrī -- 2.1.2 The Jāmiʿ of ʿAbdallāh b. Wahb -- 2.1.3 The Tafsīr ʿAbd al-Razzāq -- 2.1.4 The Tafsīr Mujāhid b. Jabr, as transmitted by Ādam b. Abī Iyās -- 2.2 Material Attributed to Women in Linguistically-Focused Exegetical Works -- 2.2.1 The Majāz al-Quran of Abū ʿUbayda -- 2.2.2 The Maʿānī l-Qurʾān of al-Farrāʾ -- 2.2.3 The Maʿānī l-Qurʾān of al-Akhfash -- 2.3 The Tafsīr Yaḥyā b. Sallām -- Chapter 3 Negotiating Interpretive Authority in Second/Eighth and Early Third/Ninth Century Exegesis: Shifting Historical Contexts -- 1 Female Figures as Vehicles for Debating Hermeneutics -- 1.1 A Continuum of Interpretive Intentionality -- 1.1.1 Entirely Unwitting Sources: Female Poets and Anonymous Speakers -- 1.1.2 Witting, Unwitting, or Somewhere in Between?: Female Sources of Āthār and Ḥadīths -- 1.1.3 Apparently Witting: Female Sources of Quranic Readings; 1.1.4 Constructing Wittingness: Controversy Traditions and Hierarchization Traditions -- 2 Post-Companion Female Sources of Exegetical Materials -- Chapter 4 Ḥadīth, Hermeneutics and Gender in the Third/Ninth and Fourth/Tenth Centuries -- 1 Ḥadīth Compilers and Quranic Exegesis: A Gendered Intervention -- 1.1 The Tafsīr Chapter of al-Bukhārī -- 1.2 A Note on the Tafsīr Chapter of Muslim -- 1.3 The Tafsīr Chapter of al-Tirmidhī -- 1.4 The Tafsīr Chapter of al-Nasāʾī -- 1.5 The Tafsīr Chapter of al-Ḥākim al-Naysābūrī -- 2 From Prominence to Pre-eminence: ʿĀʾisha as a Source -- 2.1 Women as Sources of Ḥadīths on Theological-Exegetical Topics -- 2.2 Women as Sources of Narrative -- 2.3 Women as Sources of Theo-Political Traditions -- 2.4 Women as Sources of Legal Materials -- 2.5 Women as Sources of Eschatological and Pietistic Traditions -- 2.6 Women as Sources of Variant Readings -- 2.7 Women as Sources of merit-of-sūra Traditions -- 3 Tafsīr as ḥadīth Narration? -- 4 Afterword: Ḥadīth as Tafsīr's Shadow -- Chapter 5 Constructing the Abode of the Mothers of the Believers: Gendered Exegetical Gazes -- 1 From House-Mosque to Heterotopia: The Abode of the Mothers of the Believers -- 2 Constructing the Primary Exegetical Gaze -- 2.1 Q 33:53 in Sunni Exegesis: Transparent Seclusion? -- 3 Constructing the Secondary Exegetical Gaze -- 3.1 Pietistic Traditions: Mediating Muḥammad -- 3.2 Legal-Exegetical Traditions: Negotiating Gender and Communal Identity -- 3.2.1 Negotiating Gender: Veiling and Seclusion -- 3.2.2 Negotiating Communal Identity: Sexual Acts -- 4 The Secondary Exegetical Gaze, Autonomy, and Authority -- 4.1 ". . . Why are we not mentioned in the recitation as men are mentioned?" -- Chapter 6 (Re)constructions of the Sacred Past, Gender, and Exegesis: Some Medieval Trajectories; 1 ". . . [N]or teach them to write . . .": Discourses of Inclusion and Exclusion -- 2 Early Muslim Female Figures, Isnāds, and Medieval Tafsīr Works -- 3 By and through the Isnād: Women on the Margins of Tafsīr -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index of Quranic References -- General Index
N2  - In Gender and Muslim Constructions of Exegetical Authority, Aisha Geissinger examines quotations of exegetical materials attributed to female figures in classical Sunnī Quran commentaries, and analyses their significance within the pre-modern genre of tafsīr
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