Believing Women in Islam - A Brief Introduction

This inviting book presents a simplified version of Believing Women in Islam: Unreading Patriarchal Interpretations of the Qur'an that will help general readers and students understand its argument for women's equality.

Table des matières

• Notes on Style
• Preface: A Simpler Believing Women (Asma Barlas)
• Acknowledgments
• 1. Interpreting Scripture: A Core Dispute
• 2. The Qur'¿n: God’s Remedy for an Imperfect Humanity
• 3. Patriarchal Readings of the Qur'¿n
• 4. Methods and Revelation
• 5. Patriarchy
• 6. Equality and Difference
• 7. Family, Marriage, and Equality
• 8. Critical Dilemmas in Interpreting the Qur'¿n (David Raeburn Finn)
• Afterword: Converging Themes (David Raeburn Finn)
• Notes
• Select Bibliography
• Index

A propos de l'auteur

Asma Barlas is a professor of politics at Ithaca College. Her other books include Re-understanding Islam: A Double Critique and Islam, Muslims, and the US: Essays on Religion and Politics.
David Raeburn Finn is a Canadian philosopher and student of Islam. He currently writes on Pashtun anthropology, gender and Islam, American foreign policy, and politics, as well as fiction for children and adults.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Asma Barlas, Asma Finn Barlas, Asma/ Finn Barlas, David Raeburn Finn
• Edition: University Of Texas Press
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Broché
• Sortie: 31.01.2019
• EAN: 9781477315880
• ISBN: 978-1-4773-1588-0
• Pages: 120
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 205 mm x 10 mm
• Catégories: Sciences humaines, art, musique > Religion, théologie > Autres religions; Theologie, Islam, Andere Weltreligionen, Weltreligionen, Islam: Heilige Texte, Weltreligionen / Islam, Religion / Weltreligionen, Frau / Gesellschaft, Politik, Recht, RELIGION / Islam / Koran & Sacred Writings