Women in Classical Islamic Law: A Survey of the Sources » (New Edition)

Susan A. Spectorsky, Ph.D. (1974) in Middle East Languages, Columbi University, is Associate Professor Emerita of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Queens College, City University of New York. She has published on early Islamic Law and is the author of Chapters on Marriage and Divorce: Responses of Ibn Hanbal and Ibn Rahwayh.

Drawing on legal and hadith texts from the formative and classical periods of Islamic legal history, this book offers an overview of the development of the questions prominent jurists asked and answered when they thought about women's issues.

Preface ix

Introduction 1

1 Women in the Qur?&abar;n 21

2 Marriage in the Formative Period 61

3 Divorce in the Formative Period 105

4 From the Formative to the Classical Periods 143

5 Women's Lives 179

Conclusion 203

Works Cited 207

Index of Qur?&abar;n Verses 213

Index of Names 215

Subject Index 219