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Title Page 4 Copyright Page 5 Contents 8 Illustrations 9 Figures 9 Tables 9 Preface and acknowledgements 10 Transliteration, periodization and dates 13 Introduction: Redrawing family trees 14 The problem of patrilineal descent 14 Patrilineality versus bilateral descent, and a search for agency 16 Defining Shi‘ism 21 Defining Fatima 23 How this book is organized 25 Part 1: Mothers 28 Chapter 1: Umms and wombs: How and (maybe) why Shi‘is reckoned descent through Fatima 30 My mother, myself? 30 Medieval views on generation 31 Beyond biology 36 How Fatima carried on her lineage 37 Umm Abīhā 46 Challenges to bilateral descent 48 Why was Fatima seen in this way? 52 A closer look at Mary, Fatima and ‘the family of ‘Imran’ 55 Conclusion 60 Chapter 2: Other mothers, other sons 62 ‘A better claim to the throne’ 62 Biographical dictionaries 63 Shi‘i hadith collections 67 Historical chronicles 74 Poetry and Sufism 79 Legal texts 86 Conclusion 87 Part 2: Heiresses 90 Chapter 3: Heiress to the Prophet: Fatima, Fadak and female inheritance 92 Carving out a more prominent place for daughters 92 The stark patrilineal model 94 Inheritance and the advent of Islam 95 Inheritance in Sunni and Shi‘i l

Author

Alyssa Gabbay;

Published

2019

Language

EN