Believing women in Islam : unreading patriarchal interpretations of the Qur'an

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Barlas, Asma (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Edition:revised edition
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • 1. The quran and muslim women: reading patriarchy, reading liberation
  • 2. Texts and textualities: the quran, tafsir and ahadith
  • 3. Intertextualities, extratextual contexts: the sunnah, shariah and the state
  • 4. The patriarchal imaginary of fathers: divine ontology and the prophets
  • 5. Abraham's sacrifice in the quran: beyond the body
  • 6. The quran, sex/gender, and sexuality: sameness, difference, equality
  • 7. The family and marriage: retrieving the qurans egalitarianism
  • 8. Secular-/feminism and the quran