6 (Re)constructions of the Sacred Past, Gender, and Exegesis: Some Medieval Trajectories

Abstract

Al-Ḥusayn b. Muḥammad b. Fanjawayh-ʿUbaydallāh b. Muḥammad b. Shayba-Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. Ibrāhīm al-Karābīsī-Sulaymān b. Tawba Abū Dāwūd al-Anṣārī-Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm al-Shāmī-Shuʿayb b. Isḥāq-Hishām b. ʿUrwa-his father-ʿĀʾisha, (who) said, "The Messenger of God said, 'Do not house women in upper rooms, nor teach them to write. [Rather], teach them spinning, and Sūrat al-Nūr.' "1. .. and he [al-Zamakhsharī] gave al-Silafī2 and Zaynab al-Shaʿriyya licenses to transmit [his works].3