al-Muhaddithat: the women scholars in Islam Rumi and quickly became well known

and quickly became well known as a Wa’iz

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al-Muhaddithat: the women scholars in Islam Rumi and quickly became well knownThis book is an adaptation in English of the prefatory volume of a 50 volume biographical dictionary (in Arabic) of women scholars of the Prophet's hadith. Learned women enjoyed high public standing and authority in the formative years of Islam. For centuries thereafter, women travelled intensively for religious knowledge and routinely attended the most prestigious mosques and madrasas across the Islamic world. Typical documents (like class registers