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Book Synopsis
Gendering the Hadith Tradition presents for the first time a partial translation and study of Imam Badr al-Din al-Zarkashi''s work, al-Ijaba li-Iradi ma Istadraktahu Aisha Ala al-Sahabah-The Corrective: Aisha''s Rectification of the Companions. It critically analyses from the perspective of hadith criticism a number of sections presenting Aisha''s refutations and corrections of key Companions including, Umar b. al-Khattab, Abdullah b. Abbas, Zayd b. Thabit, and Abu Hurayra, applying classical hadith methodology to the scrutiny of narrators by way of impugnment and validation (al-jarh wa al-tadil) in an effort to re-construct and re-present Aisha as a central authority in Islamic knowledge production. This work constitutes a major rethinking of the Muslim hadith and jurisprudential traditions by evaluating how Aisha responded to hadiths that were circulating and being ascribed, often incorrectly, as authoritative statements of the Prophet Muhammad. From her critique of overwhelmingly ma
Table of Contents
Introduction 1: The Woman, The Man, The Text 2: The Classical Hadith Tradition and Its Canonisation 3: Thinking Translation 4: Aisha the Jurist 5: Aisha the Hadith Master 6: Aisha the Compassionate 7: Aisha and the Hadith Tradition: An Emergent Methodology Conclusion Appendix: Selected Translation of al-Ijaba li-Iradi ma Istadrakathu Aisha 'ala al Sahaba
