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REVIEW OF Zahra Ayubi. Gendered Morality: Classical Islamic Ethics of the Self, Family, and Society

REVIEW OF Zahra Ayubi. Gendered Morality: Classical Islamic Ethics of the Self, Family, and Society .New York, NY: Columbia University Press, August 2019. 336 pages. $35.00. Paperback. ISBN 9780231191333. Unedited version .To appear in Reading Religion  By: Dr. Adis Duderija, Senior Lecturer in the Study of Islam and Society, Griffith University a.duderija@griffith.edu.au Over the last few decades a number of important scholarly discussions on the highly   gendered   ( in a patriarchal sense) nature of Islamic intellectual tradition   have been written but whose focus primarily has been on the Islamic legal tradition (fiqh) ( e.g. K.Ali,   A. Chaudhry, A.Mahellati )   and to a lesser extent Qur’anic commentary (tafsir) ( e.g. K. Bauer , A.Geissenger). Ayubi’s remarkably well written and comprehensively referenced book provides further evidence of the same dynamics at play in the context of exploring three most influential writers of the akh...