Karima al-Marwaziyya

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Karima al-Marwaziyya
Personal life
Born
Karima bint Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Hatim al-Marwaziyya

969
Kushmihan, near Merv
Died1069
Mecca
Main interest(s)Hadith
Notable work(s)
Religious life
ReligionIslam
DenominationSunni
JurisprudenceHanafi
Senior posting
Influenced

Karima bint Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Hatim al-Marwaziyya (969-1069) was an 11th-century scholar of hadith. [1] [2] [3] [4]

Biography

Karima was born in the village of Kushmihan near Merv. She later settled in Mecca. [2]

Karima was an authority on Sahih al-Bukhari. She taught the text of al-Bukhari to students and her scholarship and teaching was widely respected. [1] She was known as the "musnida of the sacred precinct." [2] Thirty-nine men and one woman transmitted material on her authority. [2] Karima was known for her prestigious isnad. Her teaching and scholarship was praised by Abu Dharr of Herat. [2] [5]

Al-Khatib al-Baghdadi and Abu al-Ghana’im al-Nursi narrated from her. [1]

By the end of her life, she was renowned as a teacher and scholar. [2] She was a Hanafi. [6] Karima never married and was celibate and ascetic. [2] [7] Louis Massingon connected her to the women's futuwwa movement founded by Khadija al-Jahniyya. This was the female equivalent of the male futuwwa societies that advocated chivalry, morality, and worship. [7]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Karima bint Ahmad al-Marwaziyya". WISE Muslim Women. 2009-08-18. Retrieved 2021-11-08.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Pavlovitch, Pavel (January 2020). "Karima bint Ahmad al-Marwaziyya and the Transmission of al-Bukhari's Sahih". Oriental Languages and Civilizations.[ permanent dead link ]
  3. ↑ Cortese, Delia (2006-01-06). Women and the Fatimids in the World of Islam. Edinburgh University Press. ISBN   978-0-7486-2629-8.
  4. ↑ Pavlovitch, Pavel (2021-03-01), "Karīma bt. Aḥmad al-Marwaziyya", Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE, Brill, retrieved 2022-05-31
  5. ↑ Goldziher, Ignác (1967-01-01). Muslim Studies, Vol. 1. SUNY Press. ISBN   978-0-87395-234-7.
  6. ↑ Brown, Jonathan (2007-09-30). The Canonization of al-Bukhārī and Muslim: The Formation and Function of the Sunnī Ḥadīth Canon. BRILL. ISBN   978-90-474-2034-7.
  7. 1 2 Schimmel, Annmarie (25 February 2003). My Soul is a Woman: The Feminine in Islam. Continuum. p. 44. ISBN   9780826414441.
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