The Oxford Handbook of Islam and Women (Oxford Handbooks)

Cover\nThe Oxford Handbook of  Islam and Women\nCopyright\nContents\nAcknowledgments\nList of Contributors\nA. Deciphering Muslim Women’s Lives: Religion, Agency, and Diversity\nB. Foundational Texts and Their Interpretations\n	1. The Qur’ān and Woman\n	2 Classical Exegeses on Key Qur’ānic Verses Concerning Women\n	3 Women in the Ḥadīth Literature\n	4 Modern Rereadings of the Qur’ān through a Gendered Lens\n	5 Modern Rereadings of the Ḥadīth through a Gendered Lens\nC. Women and Islamic Law\n	6 Marriage, Divorce, and Inheritance in Classical Islamic Law and Premodern Practice\n	7 Status of Muslim Women in Modern Family and Personal Law\n	8 Women’s Rights and Duties in Classical Legal Texts: Modern Rereadings\nD. Deciphering Women’s Lives: Women in History and Texts\n	9 Early Muslim Women as Moral Paragons in Classical Islamic Literature: al-​Mubashsharāt bi-​l-​janna\n	10 Women as Moral Exemplars in Twelver Shī‘īsm\n	11 Women as Transmitters of Knowledge\n	12 Muslim Women and Devotional Life\n	13 Women as Littérateurs in the Premodern Period\n	14 Women as Economic Actors in the Premodern Islamic World\nE. Women’s Lived Realities and Their Religious and Social Activism in the Modern Period\n	15 Women in the Mosque: Contesting Public Space and Religious Authority\n	16 Negotiating Motherhood, Religion, and Modern Lived Realities\n	17 Women as Modern Heads of State\n	18 Women’s Religious and Social Activism in Palestine, Lebanon, and Syria\n	19 Women’s Religious and Social Activism in Egypt and North Africa\n	20 Women’s Religious and Social Activism in Iran\n	21 Women’s Religious and Social Activism in Turkey\n	22 Women’s Religious and Social Activism in South Asia\n	23 Women’s Religious and Social Activism in Southeast Asia\n	24 Muslim Women’s Religious and Social Activism in China\n	25 Muslim Women’s Religious and Social Activism in South Africa\n	26 Muslim Women’s Religious and Social Activism in the United States\n	27 Muslim Women’s Religious and Social Activism in Western Europe\n	28 Women’s Religious and Social Activism in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf Countries\nF. Modern Narratives of the Gendered Self: Women Writing about Women\n	29 Modern Representations of the Wives of the Prophet Muḥammad\n	30 Modern and Contemporary Muslim Feminist Literature: An Overview\nG. Islam, Women, and the Global Public Arena\n	31 Women’s Sartorial Agency: The History and Politics of Veiling\n	32 Muslim Women as a Cultural Trope: Global Discourses and the Politics of Victimhood\nIndex