Woman's identity and the Qur'an : a new reading / Nimat Hafez Barazangi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barazangi, Nimat Hafez, 1943-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women in the Qurʼan.

Women in Islam.

Women in Islam--United States.

Women in Islam--Canada.

Women--Identity.

Women.

Women--United States--Identity.

Women--Canada--Identity.

Muslim women--Education.

Muslim women.

Muslim women--Education--United States.

Muslim women--Education--Canada.

Qurʼan--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Qurʼan.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (193 p.)

Place of Publication:

Gainesville : University Press of Florida, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

An original and uncompromising study of the Qur'anic foundations of women's identity and agency, this book is a bold call to Muslim women and men to reread and reinterpret the Qur'an, Islam's most authoritative source, and to discover within its revelations an inherent affirmation of gender equality.

Contents:

Front Cover; Table of Contents vii; Preface and Acknowledgments ix; Introduction: Women's Identity and the Qur'an 1; 1. Pedagogical Reading of the Qur'an 22; 2. The Religio-Moral-Rational Characteristicsof the Qur an and the Story of Creation 37; 3. Autonomous Morality andthe Principle of Modesty 52; 4. Gender Equality (al-Musawah)and Equilibrium (Taqwa) 68; 5. Self-Identity and Self-LearningA Shift in Curriculum Development 86; Conclusions: Where Do We Go From Here? 113; Notes 137; Selected Bibliography 149; Index 165

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8130-3699-2

OCLC:

735602966

Publisher Number:

heb40092 hdl