More Books by Fatima Mernissi. The subject of many of these Hadith is the "polluting" essence of femaleness. He had time to plan his succession. Despite the great works of our tradition, our heritage, and the history of our ancestors, we are incapable of understanding them, of interpreting them. And here is alBukhari's response, which earned him exile: " 'Go,' he said to the amir's emissary, 'tell your master that I hold knowledge in high esteenl, and I refuse to drag it into the antechambers of sultans.
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