Suppressed Histories Archives via Moses Seenarine "Since women today participate so little in the teaching of Hadith and the issuing of fatwas, there is a wide misconception that historically they have never played this role [but Shaykh Akram eventually found] no less than 8,000 biographical accounts. Fatima Al Batayahiyyah, an 8th century scholar in Damascus, was known as one of the greatest scholars of that period, a distinguished, elderly woman teaching her students for days on end in the Prophet’s mosque itself. [Also in Damascus] Zainab bint Kamal, taught more than 400 books of Hadith in the 12th century. Then there was Fatimah bint Muhammad al Samarqandi, a jurist who advised her more famous husband on how to issue his fatwas. And Umm al-Darda, who as a young woman, used to sit with male scholars in the mosque. “I’ve tried to worship Allah in every way,” she wrote, “but I’ve never found a better one than sitting around debating with other scholars.” She became a teacher of hadith and fiqh and lectured in the men’s section. One of her students was the caliph of Damascus."
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