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Subject(s)

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

Editor

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

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Contents

• Front Matter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• The Qur’an and Its Interpretation
• Islamic Feminist Tafsīr and Qur’anic Ethics
• Tafsīr, Tradition, and Methodological Contestations
• Reading the Qur’an through a Gendered, Egalitarian Lens
• Figurative Representation: ḥadīth and Biographical Dictionaries
• How Did Eve Get Married? Two Twelver Shi’i Ḥadīth Reports
• Female Figures, Marginality, and Qur’anic Exegesis in Ibn al-Jawzī’s ṣifat al-Ṣafwa
• Constructing the Image of the Model Muslim Woman
• The Love of Prophet Muḥammad for the Jewish Woman Rayḥāna bint Zayd
• Fiqh and Its Applications
• Fiqh Rulings and Gendering the Public Space
• Mysterious Legislation
• Revisiting the Issue of Minor Marriages
• Conclusion
• Contributors
• Index

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ISBN

0-2280-0296-6

Doi

• 10.1515/9780228002963

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