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"Challenging the conservative framers of Islamic law who accorded a lesser status to women, Mohammad Ali Syed argues that the Quran and the Hadith - the two primary sources of Islamic law - actually place Muslim women on the same level as Muslim men. Syed provides an overview of both sources and explores their respective roles in Islamic law, emphasizing the Quran's role as the supreme authority and questioning the authenticity of some of the alleged sayings of the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh). From these texts, he elaborates women's rights in a variety of areas, including treatment by God; marriage, divorce, financial provisions, and custody of children; coming out of seclusion (purdah), and taking part in social, economic, legal, and political activities. Rather than presenting what is practiced today, the book covers the theoretical position of Muslim women as sanctioned by the Quran and the authentic Hadith and offers a glimpse of the exalted position of honor and dignity enjoyed by Muslim women in the early days of Islam." "This well-researched book is made more distinctive by the author's personal experience. Raised in Bengal, India, Syed was inspired by his family, who valued men and women equally. As he grew up, Syed realized that most Muslim women lived very differently than the women of his family. According to the author, his family was egalitarian because his father and male relatives were not only devout Muslims but also very knowledgeable about Islam. This book is a culmination of his lifelong concern for women's right under Islam."--Jacket

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ḥadīth are the documents recording the words and actions of the Prophet Muḥammad. Originally an enormous and amorphous corpus, Muslim scholars of the third/ninth century separated the ḥadīth they regarded as true from those they held to be forgeries, producing collection of ḥadīth which still command the respect of Muslims today. Ibn Abī ḥātim al-Rāzī (240/854-327/938) was one of the most prominent exponents and practitioners of ḥadīth criticism. He left a copious written legacy, including his famous Taqdima , a biographical dictionary of the early ḥadīth critics. The Taqdima reveals Ibn Abī ḥātims's vision of the critic and gives insight into the mechanism of ḥadīth criticism. It also provides a platform for the examination of the basic intellectual orientation of the ḥadīth critics and their conflicts with their opponents.

Hadith --- Authorities --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- History --- Autorités --- Critique, interprétation, etc. --- Histoire --- Ibn Abi óHaatim, 'Abd al-Raóhmaan ibn Muóhammad, --- -Hadith --- -Tradition (Islam) --- Islamic law --- Islamic literature --- Sunna --- Criticism, interpretation, etc --- -History --- Ibn Abi Hatim, 'Abd al-Rahman ibn Muhammad --- Authorities. --- History. --- Ibn Abī Ḥātim, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad, --- -Authorities --- Autorités --- Critique, interprétation, etc. --- Ibn Abī óHaatim, ʻAbd al-Raóhmaan ibn Muóhammad, --- Authorities of the Hadith --- Ḥāfiẓ (Hadith) --- Ḥuffāẓ (Hadith) --- Transmitters of Hadith --- Hermeneutics --- Transmitters --- Ibn Abī Ḥātim, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Muḥammad, --- Text criticism