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Believing women in Islam : unreading patriarchal interpretations of the Qur'ān

Title
Believing women in Islam : unreading patriarchal interpretations of the Qur'ān / Asma Barlas.
Author
Barlas, Asma
Publication
  • Austin, TX : University of Texas Press, 2019.
  • ©2019

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Description
xvi, 333 pages; 23 cm
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-322) and index.
Contents
The Qur'ān and Muslim women : reading patriarchy, reading liberation -- Part I. Texts, contexts, and religious meaning. Texts and textualities : the Qur'ān, Tafsīr, and Ahādith -- Intertextualities, extratextual contexts : the Sunnah, Sharī'ah, and the state -- Part II. God, the prophets, and fathers. The patriarchal imaginary of father/s : divine ontology and the prophets -- Abraham's sacrifice in the Qur'ān : beyond the body -- Part III. Unreading and rereading patriarchy. The Qur'ān, sex/gender, and sexuality : sameness, difference, equality -- The family and marriage : retrieving the Qur'ān's egalitarianism -- Secular-/feminism and the Qur'ān -- Postscript.
Call Number
JFE 19-4556
ISBN
  • 9781477315927
  • 1477315926
  • 9781477315934 (canceled/invalid)
  • 9781477315941 (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
2018012130
OCLC
1029787916
Author
Barlas, Asma, author.
Title
Believing women in Islam : unreading patriarchal interpretations of the Qur'ān / Asma Barlas.
Publisher
Austin, TX : University of Texas Press, 2019.
Copyright Date
©2019
Edition
Revised edition.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-322) and index.
Research Call Number
JFE 19-4556
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