Al-Muhaddithat: The Women Scholars in IslamThis book is an adaptation in English of the prefatory volume of a 40 volume biographical dictionary (in Arabic) of women scholars of the Prophets hadith. Learned women enjoyed high public standing and authority in the formative years of Islam. For centuries thereafter, women travelled intensively for religious knowledge and routinely attended the most prestigious mosques and madrasas across the Islamic world. Typical documents (like class registers

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"Ahmad Gunny has been a pioneer in the study of French and European literary and theological representations of Islam in the modern period

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