Woman's identity and rethinking the Hadith
By: Nimat Hafez Barazangi (Cornell University, USA)
Series: Islamic law in context; Islamic law in context
Publisher: Ashgate; Routledge
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 235
ISBN-13: 9781472446787
Subjects: Hadith; Women in the Qurʼan; Criticism, interpretation; Women's rights; Koran; Women in the Hadith; Women in Islam; Social conditions; Muslim women; Feminism; Islam
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-227) and index.

In English and Arabic.
Table of contents: title: Introduction:; title: Woman's identity and the Hadith : rethinking the Sunnah --; title: Muslim woman's autonomous authority in the Qur'an : Khilafa and Imama --; title: Corroborating hadith by the Qur'an : self-identity, testimony, and witnessing --; title: Qaran and Talaq in Qur'an, Hadith, Tafseer, and in personal status code --; title: Belief and knowledge, sexuality and slavery, inheritance and custody --; title: Rereading the making of Hadith and rewriting a new perspective on Sunnah -- -- Conclusions:; title: Will conscientious self-identified Muslim women become active agents?