ISLA 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: An-Nisa

• School: McGill University
• Department: Islamic Studies
• Course: ISLA 210
• Professor: Malek Abisaab

Document Summary

Week 8 lecture 6 tribalism the tribal mentality is still present. The wives of prophet muhammad and public activities. Honor is important because crimes against honor are still strong. His wives were very concerned with public issues, whether political or social. Umm salma wanted the release of prisoners. Shows that the prophet(cid:495)s wives went beyond the private space. Shows that the prophet that allowed them to accompany at the battlefield means that they lived in privilege. Major goal of external attacks was to put pressure on prophet muhammad and to give up his call on the equality of both sexes. His opponents used his private life (attack on wives) to humiliate him when he passed in difficult times military and when he was aging (losing physical strength). Because she was the favourite wife of prophet, so expected him to suffer by making rumors about her committing adultery, thus resulting in him losing confidence in her.