Gender and Succession in Medieval and Early Modern Islam

Alyssa Gabbay is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina Greensboro. She received her PhD (for which she won the Foundation for Iranian Studies award for best dissertation) in 2007 from the University of Chicago. She is the author of many peer-reviewed articles and chapters and Islamic Tolerance, published by Routledge in 2010. She will shortly be publishing The New Moon of Perfection and Other Prefaces.

Transliteration, Periodization, and Dates

List of Figures

Introduction

Part I: Mothers

1. Umms and Wombs: How and (Maybe) Why Shi‘is Reckoned Descent Through Fatima

2. Other Mothers, Other Sons

Part II: Heiresses

3. Heiress to the Prophet: Fatima, Fadak and Female Inheritance

4. Endowing Agency: Daughters, Waqfs, and Semi-Matrilineal Inheritance

Part III: Successors

5. Speaking in Her Father’s Name: Fatima as Successor to the Prophet Muhammad

6. Fatima’s Royal Shadow: Muslim Female Rulers’ Quest for Legitimacy and Sovereignty

Epilogue: Whither Fatima?

Notes

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