Believing women in Islam : unreading patriarchal interpretations of the Qur'ān / Asma Barlas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barlas, Asma, author.

Language:

Arabic

English

Subjects (All):

Women in Islam.

Women in the Qurʼan.

Women's rights--Religious aspects--Islam.

Women's rights.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 333 pages)

Edition:

Revised edition.

Place of Publication:

Austin, Texas : University of Texas Press, [2019]

Summary:

Does Islam call for the oppression of women?Non-Muslims point to the subjugation of women that occurs in many Muslim countries, especially those that claim to be "Islamic," while many Muslims read the Qur'an in ways that seem to justify sexual oppression, inequality, and patriarchy.

Contents:

The Qur'an and Muslim women : reading patriarchy, reading liberation

Texts and textualities : the Qur'an, Tafsir, and Ahadith

Intertextualities, extratextual contexts : the Sunnah, Shari'ah, and the state

The patriarchal imaginary of fathers : divine ontology and the prophets

Abraham's sacrifice in the Qur'an : beyond the body

The Qur'an, sex/gender, and sexuality : sameness, difference, equality

The family and marriage : retrieving the Qur'an's egalitarianism

Secular-/feminism and the Qur'an

Postscript.

Notes:

Copyright © 2002, 2019 by the University of Texas Press.

Printed in the United States of America.

Revised edition, 2019.

The paper used in this book meets the minimum requirements of ANSI/NISO Z39.48-1992 (R1997) (Permanence of Paper).

Austin : University of Texas Press, 2019.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781477315934

1477315934

OCLC:

1088343379

Publisher Number:

2027/heb32190 hdl