al-Muhaddithat: the women scholars in Islam Rumi Prophet Ibrahim

Prophet Ibrahim

Ḥadīth 33: Visions of the Prophet 193

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in Junayd's words

al-Muhaddithat: the women scholars in Islam Rumi Prophet IbrahimThis book is an adaptation in English of the prefatory volume of a 50 volume biographical dictionary (in Arabic) of women scholars of the Prophet's hadith. Learned women enjoyed high public standing and authority in the formative years of Islam. For centuries thereafter, women travelled intensively for religious knowledge and routinely attended the most prestigious mosques and madrasas across the Islamic world. Typical documents (like class registers