Gendering the Ḥadīth Tradition

Gendering The Ḥadīth offers a guide to thinking about how Aisha could enable us today to think more holistically about what tradition offers us today. * Usman Butt, Middle Eastern Monitor *Rehman is not advocating for a rejection of Islamic tradition as received today, but reviving a much needed corrective to it; in medieval times, there was a very robust and rich tradition by Islamic scholars of hadiths, jurisprudence and philosophical criticism and critical inquiry. * Usman Butt *

Sofia Rehman is an independent scholar of Islam, trained both traditionally in Syria and Turkey, and in Western academia, receiving her PhD from the University of Leeds. She advocates bridging the gap between scholarship on Islam and the Muslim community, setting up critical reading groups with global reach to facilitate learning and empowerment. She is a contributor to Mapping Faith: Theologies of Migration, edited by Lia Shimada, Cut from the Same Cloth?, edited by Sabeena Akhtar and Violent Phenomena: 21 Essays on Translation, edited by Kavita Bhanot and Jeremy Tiang. She is author of A Treasury of Aisha Bint Abu Bakr.