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The information summarized here is essential to a balanced appreciation of the role of women in Islamic society.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14px;\"\u003e​\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;\"\u003eThe cover shows the study journeys of Fatimah bt. Sa'd al-Khayr and her principal students. She moved from Valencia with her merchant-scholar father to China, then travelled back westward, settling longest in Baghdad. She taught thereafter in Cairo, where she died in 600 A.H. (See ch. 3.)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 9px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: 'Open Sans', Tahoma, sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; color: #3b3b3b;\"\u003e\u003cstrong style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003eAbout The Author\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 9px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: 'Open Sans', Tahoma, sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; color: #3b3b3b;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003eMohammad Akram Nadwi is one of the UK’s best-known scholars with a classical training in the Islamic religious sciences. He studied, and later taught, at the renowned Dar al-Ulum Nadwat al-Ulama in Lucknow, India, and holds a doctorate from the University of Lucknow.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 9px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: 'Open Sans', Tahoma, sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; color: #3b3b3b;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003eCurrently a Research Fellow at the Oxford Center for Islamic Studies, he is also the author of over 25 books on a range of subjects including Hadith, Fiqh, Arabic grammar and Islamic biographies, published in Arabic, English and Urdu.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 9px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: 'Open Sans', Tahoma, sans-serif, Arial; font-size: 12px; vertical-align: baseline; color: #3b3b3b;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; vertical-align: baseline;\"\u003eHis magnum opus is a forty-volume compilation of biographies of women scholars of Hadith; the introduction to this study was translated into English and published as \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.meccabooks.com\/804-al-muhaddithat-the-women-scholars-in-islam-9780955454547.html?search_query=Mohammad+Akram+Nadwi\u0026amp;results=120\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: #444444; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 200ms ease-in-out 0s, background-color 300ms ease-in-out 0s;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: #0000ff;\"\u003eal-Muḥaddithāt: The Women Scholars in Islam\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e (2007). His more recent titles include: \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.meccabooks.com\/634-abu-hanifah-his-life-legal-method-and-legacy-9781847740175.html?search_query=Mohammad+Akram+Nadwi\u0026amp;results=120\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: #444444; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 200ms ease-in-out 0s, background-color 300ms ease-in-out 0s;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: #0000ff;\"\u003eAbu Hanifah: His Life, Legal Method and Legacy\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e (2010) and the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.meccabooks.com\/801-al-fiqh-al-islami-vol-2-shaykh-m-akram-nadwi-hanafi-fiqh-9780955577949.html?search_query=Mohammad+Akram+Nadwi\u0026amp;results=120\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: #444444; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 200ms ease-in-out 0s, background-color 300ms ease-in-out 0s;\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: #0000ff;\"\u003esecond volume of al-Fiqh al-ʾIslāmī: Zakāh, Ṣawm and Ḥajj\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e (2012).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: center;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14px;\"\u003e------------------------------\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14px;\"\u003e“...read today, when many Muslim women still don’t dare pray in mosques, let alone lecture leaders in them, Akram’s entry for someone like Umm al-Darda, a prominent jurist in seventh-century Damascus, is startling. 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