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Record Number:
46840
Author(s)/Creator(s):
Ibn Sa‘d , , and Shazia Jagot,
Contributor(s):
Title:
Ku‘ayba bt. Sa‘d al-Aslamiyya (fl. 620 CE): An Extract from
Kitab al-tabaqat al-kubra
(Book of the Great Generations) (c. 600–900 CE)
Source:
Women in the History of Science: A Sourcebook. Edited by Hannah Wills, Sadie Harrison and Erika Jones. UCL Press, Pages 57 - 60. The text is from Ibn Sa‘d,
Kitab al-tabaqat al-kubra
edited by Muhammad ‘Abd al-Qadir’ Ata and translated by Asma Afsaruddin, "Reconstituting Women’s Lives: Gender and the Poetics of Narrative in Medieval Biographical Collections",
Muslim World
92 (2002): 461-480. Available open access from JSTOR:
"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv2w61bc7.16"
Description:
The entry translated from the biographical dictionary concerns a woman who provided medical care to the sick and wounded in Madina. She became Muslim during the lifetime of the Prophet.
Article Type:
Translation
Subject
(See Also)
:
Healers and Healing
Islam
Ku‘ayba bt. Sa‘d al-Aslamiyya, Healer
Islam
Medicine
Muslims
Award Note:
Geographic Area:
Middle East
Century:
7- 8- 9
Primary Evidence:
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Abstract:
The below source is an excerpt from
Kitab al-tabaqat al-kubra
(translated as ‘Book of the Great Generations’), a biographical dictionary compiled by the hadith scholar and historian, Ibn Sa‘d (784–845 CE). The
Tabaqat
is the earliest and fullest surviving biographical dictionary. The book provides an Islamic vision of universal history that begins with Adam, the first Islamic Prophet. The
Tabaqat
continues through to the life of the Prophet Muhammad and his immediate predecessors, the four
Rashidun
('rightly-guided') caliphs and the hadith transmitters who followed. The
Tabaqat
was divided into eight volumes and was organised by generations or classes. Women appear in the final volume (Kitab al-Nisa; ‘Book of Women’) and were classified into two categories: the women who met the Prophet Muhammad (d. 632 CE) during his lifetime, known as
Sahabiyyat
(‘Female Companions of the Prophet’), and women who were hadith transmitters, those who reported the traditions of the Prophet. In general, biographical dictionaries are a rich source for locating women in the early Islamic period and the Islamic Golden Age (approx. eighth to fourteenth centuries CE), with some dictionaries comprising over 1,500 individual biographies. [Reproduced from the chapter page on the JSTOR website:
"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv2w61bc7.16"
]
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Author's Affiliation:
University of York
Conference Info:
- , -
Year of Publication:
Language:
English
ISSN/ISBN:
9781800084162 (print); 9781800084155 (online)