The old women cannot be relegated to the past or overcome. Their relationship to scholarship is asymmetrical: the old women’s…
Katherine Lemons
Katherine Lemons is associate professor of anthropology at McGill University. She writes on kinship and gender, Islam, and law in South Asia and is the author of Divorcing Traditions: Islamic Marriage Law and the Making of Indian Secularism (Cornell University Press 2019).
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Al-Juwayni, al-Ghazali, and Talal Asad on the religion of the old women of Nishapur
April 20, 2022
Several texts prompted the forum on the religion of the old women of Nishapur. To give readers the ability to…
The religion of the old women of Nishapur
April 20, 2022
As a hadith or as a trope, the expression “the religion of the old women” (dīn al-ʿajāʾiz) appears in many…