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Olfa Youssef investigates the rulings about inheritance, marriage, and homosexuality in the Qur'anic text itself and compares them with the androcentric interpretations provided by male Muslim theologians and legal scholars from medieval times to the present, which today inform the body of the sharia law in the Muslim world.
List of contents
Translator's Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1. Perplexity over Inheritance
Perplexity One: Inheritance: Between Divine Compulsion and Human Choice
Perplexity Two: Who Are They Who Inherit?
Perplexity Three: Does the Male Get Twice the Share of the Female?
Perplexity Four: Do Grandchildren and Grandparents Inherit?
Perplexity Five: Agnatic Inheritance (Al Ta'seeb)
Perplexity Six: Disinheritance
Perplexity Seven: Al Kal¿la
That Which Lies After Perplexity
Chapter 2. Perplexity over Marriage
Perplexity One: Is the Dowry a Marriage Requisite?
Perplexity Two: Is the Dowry a Payment for a Woman's Sex?
Perplexity Three: The Obedience to the Husband in Bed
Perplexity Four: The Marriage of Pleasure
Perplexity Five: Anal Intercourse
Perplexity Six: Child Marriage
Perplexity Seven: Polyandry and Polygamy
Perplexity Eight: The 'Iddah
Perplexity Nine: Sex with One's Hand
That Which Lies After Perplexity
Chapter 3. Perplexity over Homosexuality
Perplexity One: Bisexuality in the Qur'an
Perplexity Two: Sih¿q stories, or why did the Qur'an remain silent over sih¿q?
Perplexity Three: Sih¿q in Qur'anic Rulings
Perplexity Four: Liw¿t Stories
Perplexity Five: Liw¿t in Qur'anic Rulings
Perplexity Six: Why Was Lot's Wife Punished?
Perplexity Seven: Punishment for Sih¿q and Liw¿t
Perplexity Eight: Are the Ghilm¿n of Heaven for Sexual Service?
That Which Lies After Perplexity
Chapter 4. Conclusion
Appendix A. Index of Qur'anic Verses
Appendix B. Index of Hadiths
About the author
By Olfa Youssef - Translated by Lamia Benyoussef
Summary
Olfa Youssef investigates the rulings about inheritance, marriage, and homosexuality in the Qur’anic text itself and compares them with the androcentric interpretations provided by male Muslim theologians and legal scholars from medieval times to the present, which today inform the body of the sharia law in the Muslim world.
