Recovering the female voice in Islamic scripture
Subtitle: women and silence
By: by Georgina L. Jardim
Series: Ashgate new critical thinking in religion, theology and biblical studies
Publisher: Ashgate Pub. Company
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781472426376; 9781472426383; 9781472426390
Subjects: Women in the Qurʼan; Muslim women; Qurʼanic teaching
Description: Protest is an activity not associated with the pious and collectively-minded, but more often seen as an activity of the liberal and rebellious. Judaism, Christianity and Islam are commonly understood as paragons of submission and obedience following Abraham's example. Yet, the scriptures of all three faiths are founded in the prophets protesting wrongs in the social order. The Qur'an claims that men and women, and the relations between them are a sign from God. The question is to what extent are women silenced in the text, and do they share with men in shaping the prophetic scriptures?This book finds that far from silencing women, the Qur'an affirms the female voice as protester for justice and as questioner of Theology. In this reading of the female role in divine revelation in the Islamic text, Georgina Jardim returns to the scriptures of the Judeo-Christian counterpart of the Abrahamic faiths, to investigate whether the Bible may claim women as brokers of revelation. The result is an enriched understanding of divine communication in the Abrahamic scriptures and a commonplace for reasoning about the female voice as speaker in the Word of God.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references ( pages 227-243) and index.
Table of contents: title: List of abbreviations; title: List of tables; title: List of figures; title: Transliteration of Arabic names and words; title: Preface; title: Feminism, Islam and revolution; title: Introduction; title: Women's voice and the public space; title: Rationale and methodology of book; title: Structure of book; title: 1. Theology of religions and interfeminist dialogue; title: 2. Deconstructing the Qurʼan's paradigmatic women; title: 3. Towards a Qurʼanic hermeneutic for gendered reading: theological approaches; title: 4. Towards a Qurʼanic hermeneutic for gendered reading: literary approaches; title: 5. Sign as Qurʼanic hermeneutic; title: 6. From signs, to titles, to women; title: 7. Prophetic disagreement in the Qurʼan; title: 8. Narratological analysis of the mujādilah; title: 9. The mujādilah as trope for interfeminist dialogue; title: Conclusion; title: Appendix; title: Bibliography.