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Rebellious Wives, Neglectful Husbands explores significant shifts in modern Qur'anic commentaries on the subject of women against the backdrop of broader historical, intellectual, and political developments in early twentieth-century North Africa.
List of contents
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1: Ruptures and Continuities in Modern Islamic Thought
- Chapter 2: Modern Approaches to Qur'anic Interpretation
- Chapter 3: Reflecting the Colonial Gaze: Women in Modern Qur'anic Exegesis
- Chapter 4: Sexually Neglectful Husbands: Classical and Modern Interpretations of Q. 4:128
- Chapter 5: Rebellious Wives: Medieval and Modern Interpretations of Q. 4:34
- Chapter 6: A New Rationalization for Polygyny: Medieval and Modern Interpretations of Q. 4:3
- Chapter 7: Men's "Degree:" An Unconditional Privilege?
- Conclusion
About the author
Hadia Mubarak is Assistant Professor of Religion at Queens University of Charlotte. Mubarak's publications include, "Violent, Oppressed and Un-American: Muslim Women in the American Imagination" in
The Personal is Political, ed. Christine Davis and Jon Crane, "Gender and Qur'anic Exegesis" in
The Routledge Handbook of Islam and Gender, ed. Justine Howe, and "Women's Contemporary Readings of the Qur'an" in
The Routledge Companion to the Quran.
Summary
Rebellious Wives, Neglectful Husbands explores significant shifts in modern Qur'anic commentaries on the subject of women against the backdrop of broader historical, intellectual, and political developments in early twentieth-century North Africa.
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This book is about the intersection of modernity and Sunni exegetical thought...The book can be read from a number of perspectives. On one level it is a response to and an accusation of 'well meaning' Muslim feminists who do not engage with the Tafsir genre and yet are quick to discard it as monolithic, patriarchal, misogynist and bereft of women's voice...It is a call to Muslim feminists not to indulge in disciplinary confusion. If one wants to engage with the Qur'an, then one needs to do so within the methods of the field of Tafsir studies and not superimpose methods from other disciplines. The book is also about the interpretive powers of pre-modern exegetes to have a say in modern issues.
