Women in Islam: An Anthology from the Qu'ran and Hadith

by Nicholas Awde

Collection of major references to women in the Quran and Hadiths, the two central Pillars of Islam on which Islamic legislation and social practice are based. Topics covered include Hygiene, Divorce, Marriage, Sex and Chastity, Inheritance, and Status and Rights.

Genres: Islam, Religion, Nonfiction

228 pages, Paperback

First published December 17, 1999

Reviews

[Sarah · Rating 2 out of 5]

Read it for my Women in Islam class. I love my teacher and her classes themselves are always super interesting, but the readings she assigns are so dull and dry. This book was no exception.

It's just a bunch of quotes from the Qur'an and hadiths that relate to/deal with women. The selections themselves seem a little bit random and are given without any context. The little context that there is comes in the form of footnotes, of which there are MANY, and they're all in the back of the book, so you constantly have to flip back and forth to read a sentence, then look up the footnote, then flip back, and so on. It's so annoying. He really should have formatted the footnotes to be on the bottom of the pages instead of at the end.

So yeah, wouldn't recommend. There's some interesting stuff in this book, but the format is so annoying and the info is so random that it hardly seems worth it.

[KD · Rating 1 out of 5]

Read this only if you want to be pissed off.