Georgina L. Jardim read a PhD at the University of Gloucestershire, UK on obscure female characters in the Qur'an, bringing these conversations about community formation and the roles of women to bear on her study of the Qur'an as a Christian woman. She has taught in tertiary institutions in South Africa, and was a lecturer in Semitic languages at a Theological Seminary of the North West University in South Africa. She has also taught in the United Kingdom in both secondary and tertiary education and is currently pursuing ways to engage in, and further, cross-cultural dialogue within the Abrahamic religions.

• Introduction: Women’s Voice and the Public Space 1 Theology of Religions and Interfeminist Dialogue 2 Deconstructing the Qur`an’s Paradigmatic Women 3 Towards a Qur`anic Hermeneutic for Gendered Reading: Theological Approaches 4 Towards a Qur`anic Hermeneutic for Gendered Reading: Literary Approaches 5 Sign as Qur`anic Hermeneutic 6 From Signs, to Titles, to Women 7 Prophetic Disagreement in the Qur`an 8 Narratological Analysis of the Mujādilah 9 The Mujādilah as Trope for Interfeminist Dialogue Conclusion

'The absence of women’s voices from the scriptures of the major world religions has been the subject of feminist theologians’ inquiry, especially during the past three decades. Georgina Jardim's work in feminist scholarship and women’s study is impressive. This book provides a fine synopsis of some of the important works in Islamic hermeneutical tradition while set in a comparative framework. As such, it is a great contribution to the comparative feminist hermeneutics of scripture.' American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences