Al-Muhaddithat: The Women Scholars in Islam Ibadah to their survival

to their survival

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which is achieved with the remembrance of God

Al-Muhaddithat: The Women Scholars in Islam Ibadah to their survivalThis book is an adaptation in English of the prefatory volume of a 40 volume biographical dictionary (in Arabic) of women scholars of the Prophets 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