RT Article
T1 Knowledge, women and gender in the Hadith: a feminist interpretation
JF Islam and Christian-Muslim relations
VO 15
IS 1
SP 99
OP 108
A1 Shaikh, Saʿdiyya
LA English
PB Routledge
YR 2004
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/597088802
AB This article examines gender constructs embedded within the book on ‘Knowledge’ in Bukhārī's adīth collection. This text provides a site for exploring Islamic constructions of human nature, knowledge, rationality and authority. Out of a sum total of 136 adīths contain in Bukhārī's book on ‘Knowledge’, there are eight concerning women. These have multiple levels of meaning and interpretive possibilities. Employing a feminist hermeneutic, the article examines some of the gender ideology implicit in these formative adīths for Islamic understandings of the human person. The article's twofold approach firstly engages critically with dimensions of androcentricism and patriarchy within the texts, and secondly lifts out marginalized aspects embedded within the texts that offer counter–narratives to dominant constructions of gender. The intention of this reading is to name and illustrate both the functioning patriarchy as well as alternative liberatory positions of gender within the legacy. This represents part of an Islamic feminist approach that destabilizes patriarchal gender constructs and provides alternative approaches to the tradition informed by a religious commitment to gender justice.
K1 Frauen
K1 Genderproblematik
K1 Anthropologie
K1 Islam
K1 Women
K1 gender problems
K1 Anthropology
DO 10.1080/09596410310001631849