Believing women in Islam : a brief introduction / Asma Barlas, David Raeburn Finn.

By:

Barlas, Asma [author.]

Contributor(s):

Finn, David Raeburn [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Austin, TX : University of Texas Press, 2019Edition: First editionDescription: 1 online resourceContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781477315897
1477315896

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DDC classification:

297.1/2283054 23

LOC classification:

BP134.W6 B285 2019

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Contents:

Intro -- Notes on Style -- Preface. A Simpler Believing Women (Asma Barlas) -- Acknowledgments --1. Interpreting Scripture: A Core Dispute -- 2. The Qur'ān : God's Remedy for an Imperfect Humanity -- 3. Patriarchal Readings of the Qur'ān -- 4. Methods and Revelation -- 5. Patriarchy -- 6. Equality and Difference -- 7. Family, Marriage, and Equality -- 8. Critical Dilemmas in Interpreting the Qur'ān (David Raeburn Finn) -- Afterword. Converging Themes (David Raeburn Finn).

Summary: Is women's inequality supported by the Qur'an? Do men have the exclusive right to interpret Islam's holy scripture? In her best-selling book Believing Women in Islam: Unreading Patriarchal Interpretations of the Qur'an, Asma Barlas argues that, far from supporting male privilege, the Qur'an actually encourages the full equality of women and men. She explains why a handful of verses have been interpreted to favor men and shows how these same verses can be read in an egalitarian way that is fully supported by the text itself and compatible with the Qur'an's message that it is complete and self-consistent. A Brief Introduction presents the arguments of Believing Women in a simplified way that will be accessible and inviting to general readers and undergraduate students. The authors focus primarily on the Qur'an's teachings about women and patriarchy. They show how traditional teachings about women's inferiority are not supported by the Qur'an but were products of patriarchal societies that used it to justify their existing religious and social structures. The authors' hope is that by understanding how patriarchal traditionalists have come to exercise so much authority in today's Islam, as well as by rereading some of the Qur'an's most controversial verses, adherents of the faith will learn to question patriarchal dogma and see that an egalitarian reading of the Qur'an is equally possible and, for myriad reasons, more plausible.

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Is women's inequality supported by the Qur'an? Do men have the exclusive right to interpret Islam's holy scripture? In her best-selling book Believing Women in Islam: Unreading Patriarchal Interpretations of the Qur'an, Asma Barlas argues that, far from supporting male privilege, the Qur'an actually encourages the full equality of women and men. She explains why a handful of verses have been interpreted to favor men and shows how these same verses can be read in an egalitarian way that is fully supported by the text itself and compatible with the Qur'an's message that it is complete and self-consistent. A Brief Introduction presents the arguments of Believing Women in a simplified way that will be accessible and inviting to general readers and undergraduate students. The authors focus primarily on the Qur'an's teachings about women and patriarchy. They show how traditional teachings about women's inferiority are not supported by the Qur'an but were products of patriarchal societies that used it to justify their existing religious and social structures. The authors' hope is that by understanding how patriarchal traditionalists have come to exercise so much authority in today's Islam, as well as by rereading some of the Qur'an's most controversial verses, adherents of the faith will learn to question patriarchal dogma and see that an egalitarian reading of the Qur'an is equally possible and, for myriad reasons, more plausible.

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