Description: Draws upon a wide range of primary and secondary sources across centuries of Islamic history in a variety of cultural contexts to explore a variety of Muslim approaches to questions of bilateral descent
Review Quotes:
"Will be seen as a major contribution to the discussion of gendered inheritance in Islam, and the mechanisms whereby Muslim female authority was safeguarded and passed on to new generations." --Dominic Parviz Brookshaw, Associate Professor of Persian Literature, University of Oxford
"An important contribution to the field of gender and Islam. Gabbay's work brings together a range of scholarship related to Shi'i hadith, Fatima, Islamic inheritance, and gender studies in a way that is both engaging and illuminating." --Shii Studies Review "A layered and nuanced picture of gender relations in the Islamic past ... supported by rigorous research and written in accessible language." --Religiology "[In this book] Gabbay persuasively prompts readers to envision antipatriarchal bilateral futures informed by history." --Rachel Schine, American Historical Review