The perplexity of a Muslim woman : over inheritance, marriage, and homosexuality / by Olfa Youssef ; translated by Lamia Benyoussef.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yūsuf, Ulfah, author.

Contributor:

Zayzafoon, Lamia Ben Youssef, 1966- translator.

Standardized Title:

Ḥayrat Muslimah. English

Language:

Arabic

English

Subjects (All):

Women (Islamic law).

Inheritance and succession (Islamic law).

Marriage (Islamic law).

Women in Islam.

Physical Description:

vii, 156 pages : portrait ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2017]

Summary:

"Using the methodology of modern scholars in the fields of Arabic lexicography, linguistics, and psychoanalysis, Tunisian feminist scholar Olfa Youssef investigates the rulings about inheritance, marriage, and homosexuality in the Qur'anic text itself and compares them with the interpretations provided by male Muslim theologians and legal scholars from medieval times to the present. In this book, she makes five central arguments: (1) There is a discrepancy between the layered signification in the Qur'anic text itself and the sutured explanations by religious scholars which have been enacted into law in many Muslim countries today; (2) the plurality of meanings is the quintessential essence of the Qur'an as evidenced in the absence of any sura over which there was unanimous agreement among Muslim scholars; (3) when male privilege was at stake, male legal scholars, to protect their own interests, ignored the divine text and based their rulings on human consensus; (4) Muslim medieval views on gender and homosexuality were more tolerant than contemporary ones; and finally (5), preferring indetermination and perplexity over the finality and certainties found in the judgements of male theologians, Youssef argues that only God knows the Qur'an's true meaning. Her job as a Muslim female scholar is only to raise questions over those human interpretations that many Muslim societies mistake for divine will."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction

Perplexity in inheritance

Perplexity over marriage

Perplexity over homosexuality

Conclusion

Appendix A: Index of Qur'anic verses

Appendix B: Index of Hadiths (even those disputed) and historical accounts.

Notes:

Translated from the Arabic.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Other Format:

Online version: Yūsuf, Ulfah author. Perplexity of a Muslim woman

ISBN:

9781498541695

1498541690

OCLC:

958779938