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Believing women in Islam : unreading patriarchal interpretations of the Qur'ān / Asma Barlas.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Barlas, Asma, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women in Islam.
- Women in the Qurʼan.
- Women's rights--Religious aspects--Islam.
- Women's rights.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 333 pages ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- Revised edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Austin, TX : University of Texas Press, 2019.
- Contents:
- The Qur'ān and Muslim women : reading patriarchy, reading liberation
- Part I. Texts, contexts, and religious meaning. Texts and textualities : the Qur'ān, Tafsīr, and Ahādith
- Intertextualities, extratextual contexts : the Sunnah, Sharī'ah, and the state
- Part II. God, the prophets, and fathers. The patriarchal imaginary of father/s : divine ontology and the prophets
- Abraham's sacrifice in the Qur'ān : beyond the body
- Part III. Unreading and rereading patriarchy. The Qur'ān, sex/gender, and sexuality : sameness, difference, equality
- The family and marriage : retrieving the Qur'ān's egalitarianism
- Secular-/feminism and the Qur'ān
- Postscript.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-322) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781477315927
- 1477315926
- OCLC:
- 1029787916
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