Inhalt: | Preliminary Material -- Introduction: The Classical Genre of Quran Commentary, Exegetical Authority, and Gender -- 1 Constructions of Gender in Pre-modern Quran Commentaries -- 2 From Unwitting Source to Quran Commentator: Gender and Early Transhistorical Exegetical Communities -- 3 Negotiating Interpretive Authority in Second/Eighth and Early Third/Ninth Century Exegesis: Shifting Historical Contexts -- 4 Ḥadīth, Hermeneutics and Gender in the Third/Ninth and Fourth/Tenth Centuries -- 5 Constructing the Abode of the Mothers of the Believers: Gendered Exegetical Gazes -- 6 (Re)constructions of the Sacred Past, Gender, and Exegesis: Some Medieval Trajectories -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index of Quranic References -- General Index. A number of classical Sunnī Quran commentaries quote several different types of exegetical materials attributed to a few female figures from the first century A.H/seventh century C.E.—āthār, ḥadīths, legal opinions and variant readings, as well as lines of poetry. In Gender and Muslim Constructions of Exegetical Authority , Aisha Geissinger provides a comprehensive introduction to such quotations, and offers an analysis of their place and significance within the pre-modern genre of Quran commentary, demonstrating that key hermeneutical concepts in classical quranic exegesis ( tafsīr ) are gendered. Bringing together materials which have not previously been examined in detail and utilising gender as a lens through which to study them, this work provides a new approach to the study of pre-modern tafsīr |
