Karen Bauer, Feras Hamza

Women, Households, and the Hereafter in the Qur'an

A Patronage of Piety

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Produktbeschreibung

This book offers the first historical-critical study of women, households and patronage in the Qur'an, and thus of the way that Qur'anic law and theology refashioned existing late antique social structures.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 464
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. März 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 208mm x 132mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 658g
• ISBN-13: 9780198897279
• ISBN-10: 0198897278
• Artikelnr.: 69724074

Autorenporträt

Dr Karen Bauer is a Senior Research Associate at the Institute of Ismaili Studies, London. With Feras Hamza she edited An Anthology of Qur'anic Commentaries, Volume II: On Women (OUP, 2021). She is the author of Gender Hierarchy in the Qur'an: Medieval Interpretations, Modern Responses and editor of Aims, Methods and Contexts of Qur'anic Exegesis (2nd/8th-9th/15th Centuries). She has written numerous articles on the history of Qur'anic interpretation, on women's status in Islamic texts and on the history of emotions in Islam. She is the series co-editor for IQSA Studies in the Qur'an. Dr Feras Hamza is Head of the School of the Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Wollongong in Dubai, UAE, and is also a Senior Research Fellow in the Qur'anic Studies Unit at the Institute of Ismaili Studies, London. He co-edited, with Karen Bauer, An Anthology of Qur'anic Commentaries, Volume II: On Women (OUP, 2021), and with Sajjad Rizvi and Farhana Mayer, An Anthology of Qur'anic Commentaries, Volume I: On the Nature of the Divine (OUP 2008). He is the general series editor for the multi-volume project Anthologies of Qur'anic Commentaries and has authored several historical articles on the early Muslim community, as well as articles on the epistemological and methodological approaches in Qur'anic and tafsīr studies.

Inhaltsangabe

* List of Illustrations * Transliteration, Conventions and Abbreviations * Acknowledgments * Introduction * A Framework for Inquiry: Salvation and the Afterlife in the Qur'anic Kerygma * Overview of Chapters * Method * Part I: Meccan Suras * 1: Women and Households in Early Meccan Suras * 2: Women and Men as Equal Moral Subjects in Later Meccan Suras * 3: Typological Plots of Salvation in Later Meccan Suras * Part II: Medinan Suras * 4: Piety as Communal Identity (al-A
z
b Q. 33 and al-N
r Q. 24) * 5: A Community of Households (al-Baqara Q. 2 and al-Nis
Q. 4) * 6: Women and Moral Agency * Part III: Implications and Conclusions * 7: A Patronage of Piety * Appendix: Mother Symbolism * Bibliography * Index of Qur'anic Citations * General Index