Women and the transmission of religious knowledge in Islam Author:Sayeed, Asma In part because of its

In part because of its wealth

and white and Latino Muslim converts

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spirituality and of course the Quran

Women and the transmission of religious knowledge in Islam Author:Sayeed, Asma In part because of itsAsma Sayeed's book explores the history of women as religious scholars from the first decades of Islam through the early Ottoman period (seventh to the seventeenth centuries). Focusing on women's engagement with adth, this book analyzes dramatic chronological patterns in women's adth participation in terms of developments in Muslim social, intellectual, and legal history. Drawing on primary and secondary sources, this work uncovers the historical