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Subject(s)

• Qurʼan—Feminist criticism [Browse]
• Women in Islam [Browse]
• Women in the Qurʼan [Browse]
• Women in the Hadith [Browse]
• Women (Islamic law) [Browse]
• Women's rights—Religious aspects—Islam [Browse]
• Feminism—Religious aspects—Islam [Browse]
• Sex role—Religious aspects—Islam [Browse]
• Hadith—Feminist criticism [Browse]

Editor

• Reda, Nevin, 1965- [Browse]
• Amin, Yasmin, 1962- [Browse]

Summary note

"Since the 1980s, Muslim women reformers have made great strides in critiquing and reinterpreting the Islamic tradition. Yet these achievements have not produced a significant shift in the lived experience of Islam, particularly with respect to equality and justice in Muslim families. A new approach is needed: one that examines the underlying instruments of tradition and explores avenues for effecting change. In Islamic Interpretive Tradition and Gender Justice, leading intellectuals and emerging researchers grapple with the problem of entrenched positions within Islam that affect women, investigating the processes by which interpretations become authoritative, the theoretical foundations upon which they stand, and the ways they have been used to inscribe and enforce gender limitations. Together, they argue that the Islamic interpretive tradition displays all of the trappings of canonical texts, canonical figures, and canon law - despite the fact that Islam does not ordain religious authorities who could sanction processes of canonization. Through this lens, the essays in this collection offer insights into key issues in Islamic feminist scholarship, ranging from interreligious love, child marriage, polygamy, and divorce to stoning, segregation, seclusion, and gender hierarchies. Rooting their analysis in the primary texts and historical literature of Islam, contributors to Islamic Interpretive Tradition and Gender Justice contest oppressive interpretative canons, subvert classical methodologies, and provide new directions in the ongoing project of revitalizing Islamic exegesis and its ethical and legal implications."-- Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Reproduction note

Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.

Source of description

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 05, 2021).

ISBN

• 9780228002963 ((electronic book))
• 0228002966 ((electronic book))

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