Ibn Hazm On The Lawfulness Of Women Attending Prayers In The Mosque
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Mohammad Akram Nadwi
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About The Book
Questions about the rights of women, and the evident injustices in Islamic societies of arrangements that claim to rest on the authority of the religion, are not only a ‘modern’ concern. The same questions can be, and were, asked from within the religion, and on its behalf. An example of that is the right of women to attend the congregational prayers in the mosques, and what right (if any) others have to forbid them from doing so.
`Ali‚ ibn Hazm (d. 456/1064), the great Andalusian jurist, poet, and intellectual champion of the Zahiri‚ school, discussed this issue comprehensively in his Muhalla. In the text translated here, he asks and (after weighing the evidence, answers) the following questions:
- Is it lawful for women to attend congregational prayers in the mosques? (Yes.)
- Is it lawful for others to forbid this if, for some private or public reason, they happen to dislike it or disapprove of it? (No.)
- Is the effort of attending the prayers with the congregation in the mosque more worthy for men than women? (No, it is the same.)
- Is it lawful only for elderly women to attend the congregational prayers in the mosques? (No, it is equally lawful for old or young, men or women.)
Mohammad Akram Nadwi’s introduction begins with a brief review of Ibn Hazm’s works and reputation, and ends with a summary of the translated text. The notes identify the Hadith that Ibn Hazm mentions, and indicate which have been considered by the experts as reliable or unreliable. Readers should be able to judge for themselves the authoritativeness of Ibn Hazm’s argument, and whether, if their local circumstances permit, to make others aware of it.
(Dr. Akram Nadwi is a classically-trained Islamic scholar, active in the Muslim community as writer and teacher. He is the author of several books on Hadith, fiqh, Arabic grammmar, and Islamic biography; of these, perhaps the best known is al-Muhaddiithat: the Women Scholars in Islam (Oxford, [2007] 2013.)
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About the author
Ibn Hazm: Ibn Hazm rahimahullah (384-456 AH / 994-1064 CE) was one of the most prolific and intellectually formidable scholars of the medieval Islamic world, produced by the rich civilizational milieu of Andalusia. Born in Cordoba into a family of political prominence during the Umayyad Caliphate, he later devoted himself entirely to scholarship after the collapse of Umayyad political order. He became the foremost representative of the Zahiri school of jurisprudence, insisting on the strict literal application of Qur'anic and Prophetic texts without recourse to analogical reasoning (qiyas). His major legal compendium, al-Muhalla bi al-Athar, remains an essential reference in Islamic fiqh literature. He also authored al-Fasl fi al-Milal wa al-Ahwa' wa al-Nihal, a pioneering work in comparative religion and heresiography, and the celebrated Tawq al-Hamama, a treatise on love and lovers. A fierce intellectual polemicist, he engaged and debated scholars across all major legal schools. He spent part of his life in Almeria and Huelva after political reversals, dying in the region of Niebla.
About the translator
Mohammad Akram Nadwi: Mohammad Akram Nadwi (b. c. 1963 CE), born in Jaunpur, Uttar Pradesh, India, is a contemporary British Islamic scholar working in the Hanafi tradition. He received his classical training at the Nadwat al-ʿUlama in Lucknow, the institution associated with his teacher Shaykh Abu al-Hasan ʿAli Nadwi, completing the ʿalimiyya degree and a master's in hadith studies, and went on to earn a doctorate in Arabic literature from Lucknow University. In 1989 he moved to England as a research fellow at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, a post he held until 2013, when he left to concentrate on his own writing and teaching. His specialties span hadith, Islamic jurisprudence, Qurʾanic studies, and Arabic grammar. He is best known for al-Wafaʾ bi Asmaʾ al-Nisaʾ, a multivolume biographical dictionary documenting thousands of women scholars and narrators of hadith across Islamic history, a labor of many years whose findings he introduced to English readers in al-Muhaddithat: The Women Scholars in Islam. His other works include a study of Abu Hanifa's life and legal method, the multivolume al-Fiqh al-Islami on Hanafi law, a translation of Bustan al-Muhaddithin, and a biography of Abu al-Hasan ʿAli Nadwi. He directs research at the ASI Research Centre and serves as principal of Al-Salam Institute and dean of Cambridge Islamic College.
Specifications
EAN 13 / ISBN
9781999872106
Publisher
Interface Publications
Author
Ibn Hazm
Pages
99
Translator
Mohammad Akram Nadwi
Year Published
2018
Size
W- | H- | D-
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