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- ↑ See Karen Bauer, 'Debates on Women's Status as Judges and Witnesses in Post-Formative Islamic Law,' Journal of the American Oriental Society, 130.1 (2010), 1-21.
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- Fatema Mernissi, Mernissi, Fatima, and Mary Jo. Lakeland. The Forgotten Queens of Islam. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 1993. 42–43. Print.
- Ibn Kathir, Al Bidayah wa al-Nihayah
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