Misogynistic Reports in the Hadith Literature Hidayet Şefkatli Tuksal

The phenomenon of Muslim women questioning the position of “being a woman” within the framework of the Islamic religion and tradition is more often than not explained as arising due to new influences in the wake of Westernization, modernization, and feminism. These associations are not wholly erroneous. However, the objections that ‘A’isha, the Prophet’s wife, raised against some hadith reports about women which were becoming widespread in her own lifetime—a time when feminism, modernism, and Westernization were not yet forces to be reckoned with—are true precursors to the concerns raised by Muslim women today. When ‘Ā’isha heard certain