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.

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
• Publisher: Oxford Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 26.08.2025
• EAN: 9780197802786
• ISBN: 978-0-19-780278-6
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 239 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 898 g
• Series: Studies in Feminist Institutionalism
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; Islam, History, Sociology, RELIGION / Theology, RELIGION / Islam / Theology, RELIGION / Islam / Koran & Sacred Writings, Theology, Gender studies, gender groups, Islamic Theology