The Woman Who Corrected Umar: Mahr, Tafseer, and Advocacy

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This Qurayshi woman remains anonymous, but her story features most prominently in the Qur’anic exegetical literature in connection with the well-known 20th ayah from Surah An-Nisa. Her claim to fame was an incident in which she confronted ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb (d. 23 AH/644 CE) for a policy he enacted while caliph that limited the amount […] The post The Woman Who Corrected Umar: Mahr, Tafseer, and Advocacy appeared first on MuslimMatters.org.