214 Index Barlra, 57-8 al-BasasIri, 15 In 15 Battle of the Camel, 38 bay'at al-nisa\ 48, 56-7 Baybars, 160 Berkey, Jonathan, 15, 16, 178nl21, 179 Bint al-Aqra' (Fatima bint al-Hasan al-Baghdadiyya), 158 biographical dictionaries and chronicles, 8-9, 137 representation of women in, 87-90, 108-9, 133, 144, 154, 181, 188 al-Bistaml, Abu 'Umar Muhammad b. al-Husayn, 136 al-Bistaml, Abu Yazid, 133 al-Bistamiyya, al-Hurra, 136 Bloom, Jonathan, 125n55 Bourdieu, Pierre, 4-5, 113nl7 al-Bukhari, Sahib, 99-100, 112, 115-17, 118-19, 181nl31 see also badith collections Bulliet, Richard, 15, 16, 132, 135, 139, 142, 176, 177 Burton, John, 14, 44n89 Busra bint Safwan, 99, 145 Buyids, 147, 149 Bynum, Caroline, 18, 194nl4 calligraphy, 157-8, 181, 183 Chamberlain, Michael, 5n6, 16, 114nl8, 139 El-Cheikh, Nadia Maria, 125n54 Christian women’s asceticism, 71n27, 106, 192, 194 certificates, see ijdzas ; samd'at clients ( mawla ), 13, 23, 40 collective memory, 11-12, 14, 50-2, 60 Companions as category, 3, 22nl0, 79-81, 82 female, as models for later women, 110-11 Cornell, Rkia, 74, 106, 133 Crusaders, 151, 160 Damascus, 160-1 al-Daqqaq, Abu 'All al-Hasan b. 'All, 126-9, 130-1, 142 al-Dhahabl badith standards of, 74n42, 153n21 representation of women in works of, 72, 74, 108-9, 111, 154 tabaqa classification of, 80n59 transmitting badith from women, 109, 166 Dhu al-Nun al-Misri, 133 Dhuba'a bint al-Zubayr, 45 Dickinson, Eerik, 120 al-Dimashql, Shams al-Muluk, 166 divorce, 43, 58-9, 75 Drory, Joseph, 161n47 Duhman, Muhammad, 162 Durra bint Abl Lahab, 45 Fakhita bint Abl Talib (Umm Hani5), 45, 46-7 faqiha, 26, 62, 68, 71, 74, 88 al-Farisi, ‘Abd al-Ghafir b. Isma'Il, 115, 126-7, 134, 141-2, 144 al-Farisi, Abu 'Abd Allah, 115 al-Farisi family in Nishapur, 134-5 fathers, role in women’s careers of, 126-8, 130, 152-3, 164, 171 Fatima bint 'Abd al-Qadir b. Muhammad (Bint al-Qarimzan), 182-3 Fatima bint 'All b. Abl Talib, 86 Fatima bint 'All b. Mansur, 174 Fatima (daughter of Muhammad), 35n55, 45, 85, 135 Fatima bint al-Hasan b. 'All al-Daqqaq, 111, 114, 126-36, 138 Fatima bint al-Husayn b. 'All b. Talib, 86 Fatima bint Muhammad b. ‘Abd al-Hadl, 171, 172 Fatima bint Mujll, 90n81 Fatima bint al-Mundhir, 66 Fatima of Nishapur, 133 Fatima bint Qays al-Fihriyya, 43, 58-9, 99, 145, 190n5 Fatima bint ‘Umar b. al-Khattab, 33n48 Fatima bint Yusuf al-Tadafl, 181 Fatimids, 147, 151, 159 fatwas , women as seekers or subjects of, 48, 57-60 al-Firabrl, Abu ‘Abd Allah, 117 fitna, 92-3, 150 foreign influences on women’s status in early Islam, 105-7, 191-2 al-Furakl, Abu Bakr Ahmad, 135n84 al-Furakl family in Nishapur, 134-5 genders, norms governing interaction between, 19, 31-3, 53, 69, 71, 177-8