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5 - Prophet’s Wives: “Mothers of the Believers”

from Part I - Logic of Classical Reasoning

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2025

By
Mahjabeen Dhala
Edited by
Masooda Bano
Masooda Bano
Affiliation:
University of Oxford
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Mahjabeen Dhala provides insight into how the wives of the Prophet Muhammad serve as role models for Muslim women. The chapter demonstrates how these women chose to live by the high moral standards expected of them and exercised agency not only within traditional roles but also in the socio-political life of the nascent Muslim community.

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Mothers of the believersprophet’s wivesmoral agencyZaynab bint JahshUmm Salama
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The Cambridge Companion to Women and Islam , pp. 124 - 144
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2025

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