"Believing Women" in Islam. Unreading Patriarchal Interpretations of the Qur'an

From: The Muslim World | Date: October 1, 2002| Author: | Copyright information

Chair of the Department of Politics at Ithaca College in New York, Asma Barlas acknowledges that she has no special credentials on the basis of which she would be recognized by the Islamic community as an authority in Qur'anic interpretation. The argument of her book, however, which is to refute the claim that the Qur'an in any way supports patriarchy, is based on her insistence that contemporary Muslims must take responsibility for the recovery of the true and proper meaning of the sacred text. That Muslims have not determined criteria for generating a "textually legitimate reading of the ...

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