Women and Gender in the Qur''an

Stories related to gendered social relations permeate the Qur'an, and nearly three hundred verses involve specific women or girls. These stories weave together theology and ethics to reinforce central Qur'anic ideas regarding submission to God and moral accountability. Women and Gender in the Qur'an outlines how women and girls - old, young, barren, fertile, chaste, profligate, reproachable, and saintly-enter Qur'anic sacred history and advance the Qur'an's overarching didactic aims.

List of contents

• Preface


• Acknowledgments


• Notes on Transliteration, Translation, and Abbreviations


• Introduction


• 1. Female Sex and Sexuality


• 2. Procreation, Parenting, and Female Kin


• 3. Women Speakers and Interlocutors


• 4. Women Exemplars for an Emerging Polity


• Conclusion


• Appendices Notes


• Bibliography Indices

About the author

Celene Ibrahim is a faculty member in the Department of Religious Studies and Philosophy at Groton School. She has written extensively on themes related to women and gender in Muslim intellectual history and is a public voice on issues of religious pluralism. Ibrahim holds a PhD in Arabic and Islamic civilizations from Brandeis University, a master's of divinity from Harvard University, and a bachelor's degree with highest honors from Princeton University

Product details

• Authors: Celene Ibrahim, Celene (Muslim Chaplain Ibrahim
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.12.2020
• EAN: 9780190063818
• ISBN: 978-0-19-006381-8
• No. of pages: 232
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; RELIGION / Sexuality & Gender Studies, RELIGION / Islam / Koran & Sacred Writings, Theology, Gender studies, gender groups, Islamic Theology, The Koran (Qur’an), The Koran