Decoding the Egalitarianism of the Qur'an
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Gender egalitarianism
Islamic feminism
Islamic reformation
Muslim Women
Qur'anic Studies
Qur’anic Studies
The Qur'an
The Qur’an
Women in Islam
Women in Qur'an
Women in Qur’an
Women rights
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- ISBN 9781793609915
- Weight: 281g
- Dimensions: 154 x 220mm
- Publication Date: 19 Nov 2021
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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This volume challenges a long history of normalizing patriarchal approaches to the Qur’an and calls for a questioning of the interpretive credibility of many inherited Qur’anic commentaries. The author presents a fresh reading of the sacred text and Islamic teaching traditions as the rediscovery of a lost humanitarian and gender-egalitarian textual richness that has been poorly and loosely handled for centuries. The book stresses the importance of reviewing the interpretive linguistic choices that jurists and exegetes over the last fourteen centuries have adopted to semantically reshape the Qur’anic text. The vigilant reading the author provides of carefully chosen texts and commentaries suggests that many interpretive approaches to the Qur’an are dominated by sociopolitical factors alien to the intrinsic values of the text itself. More importantly, inconsistencies across putatively sound books of tafsir indicate that the Qur’anic text often suffers from historical and systematic drainage of its humanitarianism, gender-egalitarianism, and religious pluralism.
Abla Hasan is associate professor of Arabic language and culture at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
