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A Woman of Fire: The Life and Unsilenced Voice of Aisha, Mother of Believers: How One Woman's Grief, Brilliance, and Defiant Love Shaped a Civilization - Softcover
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She was eighteen when he died in her arms.
You know what it is to carry something that never quite closes. To keep working anyway. To be told, in a hundred small ways, that your grief is too loud, your questions are inconvenient, and your fire is more than the room requires.
Aisha bint Abi Bakr was told all of that, and she did not get smaller.
She was the Prophet Muhammad's youngest wife, and when he died she became the single most important source we have for how he actually lived. More than two thousand of her narrations survive in the canonical collections. The senior companions, men who had fought at Badr, brought her the questions they could not settle among themselves. When they got something wrong she corrected them by name, in public, and the tradition wrote her corrections down and kept them for fourteen hundred years.
She did all of it from one small room, from behind a curtain, without pay, in the house where he was buried under the floor.
A Woman of Fire is the first narrative biography to tell her whole life at full human scale, built entirely from her own transmitted words. The girl who answered the Prophet with a joke about Solomon's winged horses. The fifteen-year-old accused before her whole community, who held her ground for a month and, when she was cleared, could not remember the name of the prophet she was quoting. The woman who rode into the worst mistake of her life, came home, said out loud that she had been wrong, and sat back down to work. The widow who wept at every meal for forty-six years and produced the most consulted body of knowledge of her generation in the same room where she wept.
In these pages you will:
- Meet her as a person rather than a name in a chain of transmission
- Sit inside the room on the last morning, in the detail she alone recorded
- Watch her win an argument against the son of a caliph using the Quran
- See exactly how four conversations carried her words into the foundations of Islamic law
- Find the women in every century since who took her as permission
This is for anyone who has been told they feel too much, ask too much, or take up more room than they were assigned.
Nothing here is invented. She said it all herself, and it was written down.
Open the first page. She is still talking.
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. She was eighteen when he died in her arms.You know what it is to carry something that never quite closes. To keep working anyway. To be told, in a hundred small ways, that your grief is too loud, your questions are inconvenient, and your fire is more than the room requires.Aisha bint Abi Bakr was told all of that, and she did not get smaller.She was the Prophet Muhammad's youngest wife, and when he died she became the single most important source we have for how he actually lived. More than two thousand of her narrations survive in the canonical collections. The senior companions, men who had fought at Badr, brought her the questions they could not settle among themselves. When they got something wrong she corrected them by name, in public, and the tradition wrote her corrections down and kept them for fourteen hundred years.She did all of it from one small room, from behind a curtain, without pay, in the house where he was buried under the floor.A Woman of Fire is the first narrative biography to tell her whole life at full human scale, built entirely from her own transmitted words. The girl who answered the Prophet with a joke about Solomon's winged horses. The fifteen-year-old accused before her whole community, who held her ground for a month and, when she was cleared, could not remember the name of the prophet she was quoting. The woman who rode into the worst mistake of her life, came home, said out loud that she had been wrong, and sat back down to work. The widow who wept at every meal for forty-six years and produced the most consulted body of knowledge of her generation in the same room where she wept.In these pages you will: Meet her as a person rather than a name in a chain of transmissionSit inside the room on the last morning, in the detail she alone recordedWatch her win an argument against the son of a caliph using the QuranSee exactly how four conversations carried her words into the foundations of Islamic lawFind the women in every century since who took her as permissionThis is for anyone who has been told they feel too much, ask too much, or take up more room than they were assigned.Nothing here is invented. She said it all herself, and it was written down.Open the first page. She is still talking. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9798182242004
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. She was eighteen when he died in her arms. She spent the next forty-six years making sure the world would never forget what he taught.Aisha bint Abi Bakr was the Prophet Muhammad's youngest wife and the most prolific transmitter of Islamic knowledge in history. More than 2,200 narrations preserved in the canonical hadith collections trace back to her - more than any other single source. She corrected senior companions who misremembered. She challenged rulings she knew to be wrong. She taught from behind a curtain in Medina for decades, and the voice that came through the cloth shaped the legal and spiritual foundations of a civilization.She was also a girl who kept toys in her room. A woman who wept at every meal because she could not stop missing him. A political actor who rode a camel to Basra at the head of an army, made a catastrophic error of judgment, and came home to say so plainly before returning to her teaching life. She was, in every dimension, too large to be contained in any single story the tradition has tried to tell about her.A Woman of Fire is the first literary narrative nonfiction account of Aisha's complete life - from her childhood in Mecca to her decades of scholarship in Medina, from the intimacy of the prophetic household to the first civil wars of Islam. Drawing on the primary hadith collections, the Sira literature, and the best contemporary scholarship, Narin Hikma brings Aisha into full human dimension: the grief and the fire, the precision and the love, the error and the long work of recovery.This is the story of the woman who held the tradition together when it was most fragile - and who has been holding it ever since. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9798182242004
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