Decoding the Egalitarianism of the Qur'an
Retrieving Lost Voices on Gender
Seiten
2021
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-7936-0991-5 (ISBN)
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-7936-0991-5 (ISBN)
This volume challenges longstanding interpretative practices in reading the Qur’an and invites readers to discover afresh the riches and gender-egalitarian directness of the sacred text itself. The work retrieves for readers and scholars an oft-neglected tradition of encounter with Islam’s scripture and teaching tradition.
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 tafsīr indicate that the Qur’anic text often suffers from historical and systematic drainage of its humanitarianism, gender-egalitarianism, and religious pluralism.
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 tafsīr 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.
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Decoding the egalitarianism of the Qur’an: overcoming deficiencies
Chapter 2: Gender egalitarianism in the Qur’an
Chapter 3: Marriage in the Qur’an Chapter 4: Female body-ownership Chapter 5: Women’s agency in the Qur’an Conclusion
Bibliography
About the Author
| Erscheinungsdatum | 16.06.2021 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Lexington Studies in Islamic Thought |
| Verlagsort | Lanham, MD |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 154 x 220 mm |
| Gewicht | 281 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-7936-0991-8 / 1793609918 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-7936-0991-5 / 9781793609915 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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