Ash (Aisha) Geissinger is an Associate Professor at Carleton University, Canada. Geissinger\u2019s research is located at the intersection of the study of the Qur\u2019an and its exegesis, the Hadith literature and hadith commentaries, and gender. Their book, Gender and Muslim Constructions of Exegetical Authority: A Rereading of the Classical Genre of Qur\u02be\u0101n Commentary<\/em> (Brill, 2015) is the first monograph-length critical study of the textual functions of exegetical materials attributed to women which are often quoted in classical Qur\u2019an commentaries. It argues for and models a new approach to studying Qur\u2019an commentaries which utilizes gender as an analytical lens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n Qur\u2019an commentators in the formative and early classical periods often utilize gendered rhetoric as well as representations of female figures as sources of materials, often hadiths, which they deemed relevant to quranic exegesis. But little is known about what Qur\u2019an commentators writing in later centuries do with such representations. At present, I am researching the ways that the Durr al-manth\u016br<\/em>, a Qur\u2019an commentary written by the prolific Cairene scholar Jal\u0101l al-D\u012bn al-Suy\u016b\u1e6d\u012b (d. 911 AH\/1505 CE) utilizes these, while analyzing the significance of such materials for our understanding of his hermeneutical approach. <\/p>\n\n\n\n “Female Figures, Marginality, and Qur\u2019anic Exegesis in Ibn al-Jawzi\u2019s Sifat al-safwa<\/em>,\u201d in Islamic Interpretive Tradition and Gender Justice: Processes of Canonization, Subversion, and<\/em> Change<\/em>, eds. Nevin Reda and Yasmin Amin (Montreal and Kingston, ON: McGill-Queen\u2019s University Press), 151\u2013178. (in press)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Gender and Muslim Constructions of Exegetical Authority: A Rereading of the Classical Genre of Qur\u02be\u0101n Commentary<\/em> (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2015).<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe Portrayal of the \u1e24ajj as a Context for Women\u2019s Exegesis: Textual Evidence in al-Bukh\u0101r\u012b\u2019s (d. 870 C.E.) \u1e62a\u1e25\u012b\u1e25<\/em>,\u201d in Insights into Classical Arabic Literature and Islam<\/em>, Sebastian Guenther, ed. (Brill, 2005), 153\u2013179.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cApplying Gender and Queer Theory to Premodern Sources,\u201d in Routledge Handbook of Islam and Gender<\/em>, ed. Justine Howe (Abingdon, UK: Routledge, in press).<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201c\u2018Will You Not Teach ruqyat al-namla <\/em>to this (Woman)\u2026?\u2019: Notes on a Hadith\u2019s Historical Uncertainties and Its Role in Translations of Mu\u1e25ammad,\u201d Islam at 250 AH: Studies in<\/em> Memory of G.H.A. Juynboll<\/em>, eds. Petra M. Sijpesteijn and Camilla Adang (Leiden: Brill, 2020), 207\u2013234. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cNo, a Woman did not \u2018Edit the Qur\u2019an\u2019: Towards a Methodologically Coherent Approach to a Tradition Portraying a Woman and Written Quranic Materials,\u201d Journal of the American<\/em> Academy of Religion <\/em>85.2 (June 2017), 416-445.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201c\u2018Are Men the Majority in Paradise, or Women?\u2019: Constructing Gender and Communal Boundaries in Muslim\u2019s (d. 261 AH\/875 CE) Kit\u0101b al-Janna<\/em>,\u201d in Roads to Paradise:<\/em> Eschatology and Concepts of the Hereafter in Islam<\/em>, eds. Sebastian Guenther and Todd Lawson (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2017), I, 311\u2013340.<\/p>\n\n\n\nResearch related to commentary<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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