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Al-Muhaddithat. Al-Muhaddithat: The Women Scholars in Islam is a book by Akram Nadwi, originally published in 2007. This work serves as an English introduction to his Arabic publication, Al-Wafa bi Asma al-Nisa, which consists of 43 volumes and focuses on the biographies of women scholars of hadith. Nadwi worked in this field of research for 15 ...
Leila Ahmed ( Arabic: لیلى أحمد; born 29 May 1940) [ 1] is an Egyptian-American scholar of Islam. In 1992 she published her book Women and Gender in Islam, which is regarded as a pioneering historical analysis of the position of women in Arab Muslim societies. [ 2][ 3] She became the first professor of women's studies in religion at ...
In the book The Forgotten Queens of Islam, Fatima Mernissi uses an intersectional approach to understand the positions of women throughout early Islamic history through social and political identities that created modes of discrimination. Her aim was to bring to light the significant contributions that women had made throughout early Islamic ...
She is the subject of several studies, including Jean Boyd's The Caliph's Sister: Nana Asma'u 1793–1865: Teacher, Poet and Islamic Leader (1989), described as an "important book" that "provides a good read for the nonspecialist willing to discard common stereotypes about women in Africa", [17] and One Woman's Jihad: Nana Asma'u, Scholar and ...
Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women (1994) is a non-fiction book by Australian journalist Geraldine Brooks, based on her experiences among Muslim women of the Middle East. It was an international bestseller, translated into 17 languages. The book deals with cultural and religious practices, describes positive as well as ...
Begum Rokeya. Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain[ a] (9 December 1880 [ b] – 9 December 1932), commonly known as Begum Rokeya, [ c] was a prominent Bengali feminist thinker, writer, educator and political activist from British India. She is widely regarded as a pioneer of women's liberation in Bangladesh and India. She advocated for men and women to be ...
This article is an incomplete list of female scholars of Islam. A traditionally-trained female scholar is referred to as ʿālimah or Shaykha. [ 1] The inclusion of women in university settings has increased the presence of women scholars. [ 2] Akram Nadwi authored the largest compilation on female Islamic scholars, titled Al-Wafa bi Asma al ...
The work of medieval Arabic-language women poets has not been preserved as extensively as that of men, but a substantial corpus nonetheless survives; the earliest extensive anthology is the late ninth-century CE Balāghāt al-nisāʾ by Ibn Abī Ṭāhir Ṭayfūr (d. 280/893). [6] Abd al-Amīr Muhannā named over four hundred female poets in ...