Founding Mothers, Speaking Sisters: Lineaments of Community in History
Founding Mothers, Speaking Sisters: Lineaments of Community in History
This chapter focuses on Fawwaz’s portraits of early Muslim women, especially those of ahl al-bayt, the Prophet Muhammad’s family and lineage. It highlights her presentations of Alid and early Shi’i women given Fawwaz’s origins in the Shi‘i region of Jabal ‘Amil, Lebanon. Discussing women’s roles in the rift which led later to the development of sects in Islam, it finds that the biographical dictionary features an unusually high proportion of pro-‘Ali (Alid) and then Shi ‘i women, and that in their orientation these biographies signal a quiet but discernible Shi‘i perspective or allegiance. It then discusses Fawwaz’s emphases in her biographies of Muslim contemporaries: scholarship, literature, and reform, and how her life histories of Arab or Muslim contemporaries parallel those of Europeans.
Keywords: Shi‘ism, shi‘a, Jabal ‘Amil, Mothers of the Believers, Ummahat al-mu’minin, Khadija bt. Khuwaylid, ‘A’isha bt. Abi Bakr, ‘Ali b. Abi Talib, Alids, Zaynab bt. ‘Ali, Husayn b. ‘Ali, ‘A’isha Taymur, Fatma Aliye
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