Skip to main content Accessibility help
×

Online ordering will be unavailable from 17:00 GMT on Friday, April 25 until 17:00 GMT on Sunday, April 27 due to maintenance. We apologise for the inconvenience.

Hostname: page-component-669899f699-7xsfk Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2025-04-25T21:05:00.871Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

Part I - Logic of Classical Reasoning

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2025

Masooda Bano
Affiliation:
University of Oxford
Get access
Type
Chapter
Information
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2025

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

Book purchase

Temporarily unavailable

References

Select Bibliography

Ali, Kecia. Sexual Ethics and Islam: Feminist Reflections on the Qur’an, Hadith, and Jurisprudence. Oxford: Oneworld Publications, 2006.Google Scholar
Ayyad, Essam S.The “House of the Prophet” or the “Mosque of the Prophet”?Journal of Islamic Studies 24, no. 3 (2013): 273344.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
el-Badawi, Emran Iqbal. Queens and Prophets: How Arabian Noblewomen and Holy Men Shaped Paganism, Christianity, and Islam. London: Oneworld Publications, 2022.Google Scholar
Barlas, Asma. Believing Women in Islam: Unreading Patriarchal Interpretations of the Qur’an. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2002.Google Scholar
Bauer, Karen and Feras, Hamza. ‘Qur’anic Morality as Qur’anic Law (What Is Qur’anic Law?)’, forthcoming in Regulative Verses of the Qur’an: From Historical Trends to Contemporary Trajectories, ed. Bauer, Karen, Fatemi, Mohammed, Gleave, Robert, and Stewart, Devin.Google Scholar
Bauer, Karen and Feras, Hamza. Women, Households, and the Hereafter in the Qur’an: A Patronage of Piety. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023.Google Scholar
Chaudhry, Ayesha S. Domestic Violence and the Islamic Tradition: Ethics, Law, and the Muslim Discourse on Gender. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Cook, Michael. Commanding Right and Forbidding Wrong in Islamic Thought. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.Google Scholar
Davitashvili, Ana. ‘The Inner-Qurʾānic Development of the Images of Women in Paradise: From the ḥūr ‘īn to Believing Women’. Journal of the International Qur’anic Studies Association 7 (2022): 2754.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
de Cillis, Maria. Free Will and Predestination in Islamic Thought: Theoretical Compromises in the Work of Avicenna, al-Ghazālī and Ibn ‘Arabī. Abingdon: Routledge, 2013.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Hidayatullah, Aysha. Feminist Edges of the Qur’an. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Ibrahim, Celene. Women and Gender in the Qur’an. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Rahman, Fazlur. Major Themes of the Qur’an. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980; repr. with an intro. by Ibrahim Moosa, 2009.Google Scholar
Schmid, Nora K.Lot’s Wife: Late Antique Paradigms of Sense and the Qurʾān’. In Qurʾānic Studies Today, ed. Neuwirth, Angelika and Sells, Michael, 5281. Abingdon: Routledge, 2016.Google Scholar
Stewart, Devin J.Understanding the Quran in English: Notes on Translation, Form, and Prophetic Typology’. In Diversity in Language: Contrastive Studies in Arabic and English Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, ed. Ibrahim, Zeinab M., Aydelott, Sabiha T., and Kassabgy, Nagwa, 3148. Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 2000.Google Scholar
Tottoli, Roberto. Biblical Prophets in the Qurʾān and Muslim Literature. Richmond: Routledge Curzon, 2002.Google Scholar
Zellentin, Holger Michael. Law beyond Israel: From the Bible to the Qur’an. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Zellentin, Holger Michael The Qurʾān’s Legal Culture: The Didascalia Apostolorum as a Point of Departure. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2013.Google Scholar

Select Bibliography

Baderin, Mashood A.Law of inheritance’. In Baderin, , Islamic Law: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford Academic, 2021.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Bishin, Benjamin G. and Cherif, Feryal M.Women, Property Rights, and Islam’. Comparative Politics 49, no. 4 (2017): 501–20.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Chowdhury, Safiah, Alkiek, Tesneem, and Khan, Nazir. ‘Women in Islamic Law: Examining Five Prevalent Myths’. Yaqeeninstitute.org, 24 July 2019, https://yaqeeninstitute.org/read/paper/women-in-islamic-law-examining-five-prevalent-myths.Google Scholar
Hallaq, Wael. Authority, Continuity, and Change in Islamic Law. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.Google Scholar
Hanafi, Sari and Tomeh, Azzam. ‘Gender Equality in the Inheritance Debate in Tunisia and the Formation of Non-Authoritarian Reasoning’. Journal of Islamic Ethics 3 (2019): 207–32.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Hanif, Sohail. ‘A Theory of Early Classical Ḥanafism: Authority, Rationality and Tradition in the Hidāyah of Burhān al-Dīn ‘Alī ibn Abī Bakr al-Marghīnānī (d. 593/1197)’. DPhil diss., University of Oxford, 2017.Google Scholar
Horii, Satoe. ‘Reconsideration of Legal Devices (Ḥiyal) in Islamic Jurisprudence: The Ḥanafis and Their “Exits” (Makhārij)’. Islamic Law and Society 9, no. 3 (2002): 312–57.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Jawad, Haifaa. The Rights of Women in Islam: An Authentic Approach. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 1998.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Johansen, Baber. Contingency in a Sacred Law: Legal and Ethical Norms in the Muslim Fiqh. Leiden: Brill, 1999.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Katz, Marion. Wives and Work: Islamic Law and Ethics before Modernity. New York: Columbia University Press, 2022.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
al-Nagar, Samia El and Tønnessen, Liv. “Family Law Reform in Sudan: Competing Claims for Gender Justice between Sharia and Women’s Human Rights.” CMI Report no. 5, December 2017.Google Scholar
Quraishi, Asifa. ‘What If Sharia Weren’t the Enemy? Rethinking International Women’s Rights Advocacy on Islamic Law’. Columbia Journal of Gender and Law 22, no. 1 (2011).Google Scholar
Rapoport, Yossef. Marriage, Money and Divorce in Medieval Islamic Society. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Spiker, Hasan. Hierarchy and Freedom: An Examination of Some Classical Metaphysical and Post-Enlightenment Accounts of Human Autonomy. Dublin: New Andalus Press, 2023.Google Scholar
Welchman, Lynn. Women’s Rights and Islamic Family Law: Perspectives on Reform. London: Zed Books, 2004.Google Scholar

References

Abdul Rahman, Aisha. ‘The Islamic Conception of Women’s Liberation’. Al-Raida (1970): 3743.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Akhtar, Sabeena, ed. Cut from the Same Cloth. London: Unbound, 2020.Google Scholar
Ali, Kecia. Sexual Ethics and Islam: Feminist Reflections on Qur’an, Hadith, and Jurisprudence. Oxford: Oneworld Publications, 2006.Google Scholar
Bullock, Katherine. Rethinking Muslim Women and the Veil: Challenging Historical and Modern Stereotypes. 2nd ed. London: International Institute of Islamic Thought, 2007.Google Scholar
Karaman, Nuray and Christian, Michelle. ‘“Should I Wear a Headscarf to Be a Good Muslim Woman?”: Situated Meanings of the Hijab among Muslim College Women in America’. Sociological Inquiry 92, no. 1 (2022): 225–43.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Karima, Marzuqa. ‘On the Hermeneutics of the Qurʾānic Verse of khimār’, Medium, https://medium.com/@marzuqa.karima/on-the-hermeneutics-of-the-qur%CA%BE%C4%81nic-verse-of-khim%C4%81r-73f7a43665f1, last modified 23 August 2021.Google Scholar
Mahmood, Saba. The Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011.Google Scholar
Medina, Jameelah. ‘This Battlefield Called My Body: Warring over the Muslim Female’. Religions (Basel, Switzerland) 5, no. 3 (2014): 876–85.Google Scholar
Mubarak, Hadia. ‘Classical Qur’anic Exegesis and Women’. In The Routledge Handbook of Islam and Gender, ed. Howe, Justine, 2342. Milton: Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Ruby, Tabassum F.Listening to the Voices of Hijab’. Women’s Studies International Forum 29, no. 1 (2006): 5466.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Siraj, Asifa. ‘Meanings of Modesty and the Hijab amongst Muslim Women in Glasgow, Scotland’. Gender, Place and Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography 18, no. 6 (2011): 716–31.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Stowasser, Barbara. ‘The Mothers of the Believers in the “Hadith”’. The Muslim World (Hartford) 82, nos. 1–2 (1992): 136.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Thimm, Viola. (Re-)Claiming Bodies through Fashion and Style: Gendered Configurations in Muslim Contexts. Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing AG, 2021.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Tucker, Judith E. Women, Family, and Gender in Islamic Law. Themes in Islamic Law. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Zempi, Irene. ‘“It’s a Part of Me, I Feel Naked without It”: Choice, Agency and Identity for Muslim Women Who Wear the Niqab’. Ethnic and Racial Studies 39, no. 10 (2016): 1738–54.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

Select Bibliography

Armstrong, Karen. Muhammad: A Prophet for Our Time. San Francisco: HarperOne, 2007.Google Scholar
Brown, Jonathan A. C. Muhammad: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
al-Ghazālī, Abū Ḥāmid. The Book of Prophetic Ethics and the Courtesies of Living. Trans. Adi Setia. Louisville: Fons Vitae, 2019.Google Scholar
Haylamaz, Resit and Harpci, Fatih. The Sultan of Hearts: Prophet Muhammad. Clifton, NJ: Tughra Books, 2020.Google Scholar
Ibn Hishām, ‘Abd al-Mālik. The Life of Muhammad. Trans. Alfred Guillaume. Karachi: Oxford University Press, 2011.Google Scholar
Ibn Musa al-Yahsubi, Qadi ‘Iyad. Muhammad, Messenger of Allah: Ash-Shifa of Qadi ‘Iyad. Trans. Aisha Bewley. Bolton: Madinah Press, 2014.Google Scholar
Ibn Sayyid an-Nās, Abū’l-Fatḥ Muḥammad. Nūr al-‘Uyūn: The Light of the Eyes. London: Turath Publishing, 2016.Google Scholar
Khalidi, Tarif. Images of Muhammad: Narratives of the Prophet in Islam across the Centuries. NewYork, London: Doubleday, 2009.Google Scholar
Lings, Martin. Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources. Rochester: Inner Traditions, 2006.Google Scholar
Nadwi, Abul Hasan Ali. Prophet of Mercy [Nabiyy-i Rahmat]. London: Turath Publishing, 2014.Google Scholar
Safi, Omid. Memories of Muhammad: Why the Prophet Matters. New York: HarperCollins, 2010.Google Scholar
Schimmel, Annemarie. And Muhammad Is His Messenger: The Veneration of the Prophet in Islamic Piety. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1985.Google Scholar
Sirajuddin, ‘ Abdallah. Our Master Muhammad, The Messenger of Allah. Trans. Khalid Williams. 2 vols. Rotterdam: Sunni Publications, 2008.Google Scholar
at-Tirmidhī, Muḥammad ibn ‘Īsā. A Portrait of the Prophet: As Seen by His Contemporaries. Trans. Muhtar Holland. Louisville: Fons Vitae, 2017.Google Scholar
Yamani, Muhammad Abduh. Our Lady Fāṭima al-Zahrāʾ. Trans. Khalid Williams. Alburtis, PA: Ihya Publishing, 2024.Google Scholar

Select Bibliography

Ali, Kecia. “A Beautiful Example: The Prophet Muhammad as a Model for Muslim Husbands.” Islamic Studies 43, no. 2 (summer 2004): 273291.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Amin, Yasmin. “Umm Salama: A Female Authority Legitimating the Authorities.” In Female Religious Authority in Shi‘i Islam: Past and Present, ed. Künkler, Mirjam and Stewart, Devin J., 4777. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021.Google Scholar
Ascha, Ghassan. “The ‘Mothers of the Believers’: Stereotypes of the Prophet Muhammad’s Wives.” In Female Stereotypes in Religious Traditions, ed. Kloppenborg, Ria and Hanegraaff, Wouter J., 89107. Leiden: Brill, 1995.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Ashraf, Hasan. The Prophet’s Marriage to Zaynab bint Jahsh: A Reexamination from a Historiographic Perspective, Yaqeen Institute. March 2, 2022. Updated: November 24, 2023 https://yaqeeninstitute.org/read/paper/the-prophets-marriage-to-zaynab-bint-jahshGoogle Scholar
al-Shati, Bint, Wives of the Prophet. Trans. Matti Moosa. New Jersey: Gorgias Press, 2006.Google Scholar
Brant, Jennifer. “Aboriginal Mothering: Honouring the Past, Nurturing the Future.” In Mothers, Mothering and Motherhood across Cultural Differences: A Reader, ed. O’Reilly, Andrea, 740. Bradford: Demeter Press, 2014.Google Scholar
Clohessy, Christopher Paul. Angels Hastening: The Karbala Dreams. New Jersey: Gorgias Press, 2021.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Dhala, Mahjabeen. Feminist Theology and Social Justice in Islam: A Study on the Sermon of Fatima. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Gabbay, Alyssa. “Heiress to the Prophet: Fatima’s Khutba as an Early Case of Female Religious Authority in Islam.” In Female Religious Authority in Shi‘i Islam: Past and Present, ed. Künkler, Mirjam and Stewart, Devin J., 78104. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021.Google Scholar
Geissinger, Aisha. Gender and Muslim Constructions of Exegetical Authority: A Rereading of the Classical Genre of Qur’an Commentary. Leiden: Brill, 2015.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
O’Reilly, Andrea. “African American Mothering: ‘Home Is Where the Revolution Is’.” In Mothers, Mothering and Motherhood across Cultural Differences, ed. O’Reilly, Andrea, 93118. Bradford: Demeter Press, 2014.Google Scholar
Pappano, Margaret Aziza and Olwan, Dana M. Muslim Mothering: Local and Global Histories, Theories, and Practices. Bradford: Demeter Press, 2016.Google Scholar
Qutb, Muhammad Ali. Women around the Messenger. Trans. Abdur-Rafi’ Adewale Imam. Riyadh: International Islamic Publishing House, 2007.Google Scholar
Roded, Ruth. “Bint al-Shati’s ‘Wives of the Prophet’: Feminist or Feminine?British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies 33, no. 1 (May 2006): 5166.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Stowasser, Barbara. “The Mothers of the Believers in the ‘Hadith’.” The Muslim World (Hartford) 82, nos. 1–2 (January–April 1992): 136, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1478-1913.1992.tb03539.x.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

Save book to Kindle

To save this book to your Kindle, first ensure [email protected] is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about saving to your Kindle.

Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.

Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.

Available formats
×

Save book to Dropbox

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Dropbox.

Available formats
×

Save book to Google Drive

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Google Drive.

Available formats
×