The Character of the Muslim Woman
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Adil Salahi
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About the Book:
The Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) established complete equality between men and women as he said, "Women are full sisters of men". Yet both have their respective special functions. This volume draws out the features of the Muslim woman's character as outlined in the Qur'an and Sunnah. It shows that much of what we imagine to be Islamic rulings are no more than social traditions.
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About the author
Abd al-Halim Abu Shuqqah: Abd al-Halim Muhammad Abu Shuqqah (28 August 1924 – 18 September 1995 CE) was an Egyptian Islamic writer and thinker, born into a conservative Cairo family in the Gamaliyya quarter. After completing his schooling in Cairo, he entered Fuad I University (today Cairo University) and graduated from the Faculty of Arts, department of history. His early formation was shaped by a neighborhood mosque and its Islamic society, and through Syrian fellow students he came into contact with wider currents of the Islamic revival; he was associated for many years with that broader movement. Across his career he taught in Egypt, Syria, Qatar, and Kuwait, with a particular focus on the study of hadith. His enduring work is Tahrir al-Marʾa fi ʿAsr al-Risala, the fruit of a roughly twenty-five-year study built on the Qurʾan and the major hadith collections. Spanning six volumes in Arabic, it gathers and analyzes the textual evidence for women's participation in worship, learning, social life, professional work, and public affairs during the Prophet's lifetime, arguing that early Islam granted women a fuller role than later custom often allowed. The work was translated into English in eight volumes as Women's Emancipation during the Prophet's Lifetime, covering the character of the Muslim woman, her attire and adornment, and her social, professional, and political participation. He died in 1995.
About the translator
Adil Salahi: Adil Salahi is a contemporary scholar, author, and translator whose work has helped bring the Islamic tradition to English-speaking readers. Trained in the classical sciences under teachers in Damascus, in the long-standing tradition of study and certification, he combined that grounding with a background in English literature. For many years he taught at the Markfield Institute of Higher Education in England. The greater part of his career was in broadcasting and print journalism. He worked with Syrian radio and the BBC Arabic Service, contributed to the Arabic daily al-Sharq al-Awsat, and for more than thirty years wrote the full-page column "Islam in Perspective" for the Saudi newspaper Arab News. As an author, Salahi is best known for Muhammad: Man and Prophet, a widely read life of the Prophet that has gone through many printings and appeared in several languages, and for the companion study Muhammad: His Character and Conduct, as well as Pioneers of Islamic Scholarship. His translations include Sayyid Qutb's eighteen-volume Qur'anic commentary Fi Zilal al-Qur'an (In the Shade of the Qur'an) and an English rendering of the Qur'an. His other writings range across hadith studies, Qur'anic sciences, and questions of family and society, reflecting a lifelong concern to explain Islam clearly to a modern audience.
Specifications
EAN 13 / ISBN
9781847741462
Publisher
Kube Publishing
Author
Abd al-Halim Abu Shuqqah
Pages
136
Translator
Adil Salahi
Year Published
2020
Size
W-5.08 in | H-7.8 in | D-
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