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Filosofi & religion

Believing Women in Islam

Asma Barlas David Raeburn Finn

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  • 120 sidor
  • 2019
Is womens inequality supported by the Quran? Do men have the exclusive right to interpret Islams holy scripture? In her best-selling book Believing Women in Islam: Unreading Patriarchal Interpretations of the Quran, Asma Barlas argues that, far from supporting male privilege, the Quran actually encourages the full equality of women and men. She explains why a handful of verses have been interpreted to favor men and shows how these same verses can be read in an egalitarian way that is fully supported by the text itself and compatible with the Qurans message that it is complete and self-consistent. A Brief Introduction presents the arguments of Believing Women in a simplified way that will be accessible and inviting to general readers and undergraduate students. The authors focus primarily on the Qurans teachings about women and patriarchy. They show how traditional teachings about womens inferiority are not supported by the Quran but were products of patriarchal societies that used it to justify their existing religious and social structures. The authors hope is that by understanding how patriarchal traditionalists have come to exercise so much authority in todays Islam, as well as by rereading some of the Qurans most controversial verses, adherents of the faith will learn to question patriarchal dogma and see that an egalitarian reading of the Quran is equally possible and, for myriad reasons, more plausible.
  • Författare: Asma Barlas, David Raeburn Finn
  • Format: Pocket/Paperback
  • ISBN: 9781477315880
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 120
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2019-01-16
  • Förlag: University of Texas Press