Gender and Muslim constructions of exegetical authority : : a rereading of the classical genre of Qur'an commentary / / by Aisha Geissinger.

• Superior document: Islamic History and Civilization, Volume 117
• VerfasserIn: Geissinger, Aisha,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2015.; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Islamic history and civilization ; Volume 117.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (331 pages).

A number of classical Sunnī Quran commentaries quote several different types of exegetical materials attributed to a few female figures from the first century A.H/seventh century C.E.—āthār, ḥadīths, legal opinions and variant readings, as well as lines of poetry. In Gender and Muslim Constructions of Exegetical Authority , Aisha Geissinger provides a comprehensive introduction to such quotations, and offers an analysis of their place and significance within the pre-modern genre of Quran commentary, demonstrating that key hermeneutical concepts in classical quranic exegesis ( tafsīr ) are gendered. Bringing together materials which have not previously been examined in detail and utilising gender as a lens through which to study them, this work provides a new approach to the study of pre-modern tafsīr .

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Introduction: The Classical Genre of Quran Commentary, Exegetical Authority, and Gender -- 1 Constructions of Gender in Pre-modern Quran Commentaries -- 2 From Unwitting Source to Quran Commentator: Gender and Early Transhistorical Exegetical Communities -- 3 Negotiating Interpretive Authority in Second/Eighth and Early Third/Ninth Century Exegesis: Shifting Historical Contexts -- 4 Ḥadīth, Hermeneutics and Gender in the Third/Ninth and Fourth/Tenth Centuries -- 5 Constructing the Abode of the Mothers of the Believers: Gendered Exegetical Gazes -- 6 (Re)constructions of the Sacred Past, Gender, and Exegesis: Some Medieval Trajectories -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index of Quranic References -- General Index.