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This volume focuses on women in the Qur'an and Qur'anic interpretation. Comprising translations of the Qur'an, traditional Qur'anic commentaries, and interviews, this work probes the impact of the medieval interpretive tradition on modern Muslim women's rights, social status, intellectual authority, and spiritual standing within their communities.
List of contents
- Introduction
- Prolegomenon: The Qur'an on Women
- The Commentators and their Commentaries
- 1 Creation of the First Woman (Q. 4:1)
- 2 Mary (Q. 3:35-6)
- 3 Marital Roles (Q. 4:34)
- 4 The Veil (Q. 24:31)
- 5 Women's Testimony (Q. 2:282)
- Prosopographical Appendix
- Bibliography
About the author
Dr Karen Bauer is a Senior Research Associate at the Institute of Ismaili Studies, London. She is the author of Gender Hierarchy in the Qurʾān: Medieval Interpretations, Modern Responses and editor of Aims, Methods and Contexts of Qur'anic Exegesis (2nd/8th-9th/15th Centuries.). She, as well, has written numerous articles on the history of Qur'anic interpretation, on women's status in Islamic interpretation and on the history of emotions in Islam.
Dr Feras Hamza is Head of the School of the Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Wollongong in Dubai, UAE, and is also a Research Fellow in the Qur'anic Studies Unit at the Institute of Ismaili Studies, London. He co-edited (with Sajjad Rizvi and Farhana Mayer) An Anthology of Qur'anic Commentaries, Volume I: On the Nature of the Divine (OUP 2008) and is the general series editor for the multi-volume project Anthologies of Qur'anic Commentaries. He has authored several historical articles on the early Muslim community, as well as articles on the epistemological and methodological approaches in Qur'anic and tafsīr studies. He is currently working on a hermeneutics-based project entitled Time and Narrative in the Qur'an.
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This volume focuses on women in the Qur'an and Qur'anic interpretation. Comprising translations of the Qur'an, traditional Qur'anic commentaries, and interviews, this work probes the impact of the medieval interpretive tradition on modern Muslim women's rights, social status, intellectual authority, and spiritual standing within their communities.
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The impressive Anthology of Qur'anic Commentaries, Volume. II stands out as a piece of solid scholarship, diligent editing and breadth of coverage ... [Anthology of Qur'anic Commentaries, Volume. II] will be read with much profit by all those interested in the study of gender issues in Islam.
