Women in Hadith Literature: Oxford Handbook of Islam and Women – Feryal Salem

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Ḥadīth literature is rich with its references to women from the ancient past as well as those from the Prophet Muḥammad’s contemporary period. A study of the way in which women are portrayed and referenced in ḥadīth texts provides a unique glimpse into the roles women played for the narrators of these prophetic traditions. Women in the ḥadīth literature can be divided into four primary categories: (1) women whose stories are told from the past; (2) stories, narratives, and references to the wives of the Prophet whose rank as “Mothers of the Believers (ummahāt al- muʾminīn),” earned them a distinctive role as instructional models; (3) women who were considered Companions of the Prophet or saḥābiyyāt; and fnally (4) statements and references to women as a general category without specifc references to any par- ticular individual

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The Male and Female in the Islamic Perspective by Seyyed Hossein Nasr

Abstract:

To speak of creation or manifestation is to speak of polarization, of the manifold, of multiplicity
whose first stage is that primordial polarization between the two contending and complementary
principles, which are seen throughout cosmic manifestation and which in human life appear as
the male and female sexes. In relation to the Divine Unity all multiplicity is a veil, and from the
point of view of the Divine Substance everything else is an accident embracing all the
reverberations of the One in the mirror of the many which we call the world, or in fact the many
worlds which at once hide and manifest the One. But from the point of view of the created order….

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