Transmitting Sunni learning in Fatimid Egypt: the female voices
Cortese, Delia 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5507-9332
(2017)
Transmitting Sunni learning in Fatimid Egypt: the female voices.
In:
The Fatimid Caliphate: Diversity of Traditions.
Daftary, Farhad and Jiwa, Shainool, eds.
I. B. Tauris, London, pp. 164-191.
ISBN 9781788311335, e-ISBN 9781786723093, e-ISBN 9781786733092.
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Abstract
In this chapter I propose to investigate the contribution of women as transmitters of Sunnī learning in Egypt under the Fāṭimids as part of a broader project I am conducting on the intellectual history of Sunnism in Fāṭimid Egypt. This study attempts to charter the careers of prominent 6th/12th century female figures such as Zaynab bint ‘Awf and Khadīja bint al-Silafī who were active in Alexandria, but also lesser known female transmitters who came to prominence in Fusṭāṭ in the 4th/10th and 5th/11th centuries.
| Item Type: | Book Section |
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| Additional Information: | Translated in Arabic in the volume: R. Faraj (ed.), Women and Religious Knowledge in Islam, Dubai: al-Mesbar Publications, 2018 |
| Research Areas: | A. > Perspectives in Religion group |
| Item ID: | 24249 |
| Notes on copyright: | The full text is an author's manuscript version pre-copyediting and pre-typesetting, reproduced here with permission. The text is a non-final version of the chapter and is not to be cited. The final print version published by I.B. Tauris is available via https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/the-fatimid-caliphate-9781788311335/ |
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| Depositing User: | Delia Cortese |
| Date Deposited: | 17 May 2018 10:24 |
| Last Modified: | 12 Jun 2021 06:12 |
| URI: | https://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/id/eprint/24249 |
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