Believing Women in Islam - A Brief Introduction

This inviting book presents a simplified version of Believing Women in Islam: Unreading Patriarchal Interpretations of the Qur'an that will help general readers and students understand its argument for women's equality.

List of contents

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

About the author

Asma Barlas is a professor of politics at Ithaca College. Her other books include Re-understanding Islam: A Double Critique and Islam, Muslims, and the US: Essays on Religion and Politics.
David Raeburn Finn is a Canadian philosopher and student of Islam. He currently writes on Pashtun anthropology, gender and Islam, American foreign policy, and politics, as well as fiction for children and adults.

Product details

• Authors: Asma Barlas, Asma Finn Barlas, Asma/ Finn Barlas, David Raeburn Finn
• Publisher: University Of Texas Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.2019
• EAN: 9781477315880
• ISBN: 978-1-4773-1588-0
• No. of pages: 120
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 205 mm x 10 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; Theologie, Islam, Andere Weltreligionen, Weltreligionen, Islam: Heilige Texte, Weltreligionen / Islam, Religion / Weltreligionen, Frau / Gesellschaft, Politik, Recht, RELIGION / Islam / Koran & Sacred Writings