Women in the Qurʼan
Subtitle: an emancipatory reading
By: Asma Lamrabet ; translated by Myriam Francois-Cerrah
Contributors: Francois-Cerrah, Myriam, translator
Publisher: Square View
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 177
ISBN-13: 9781847740823; 9780993516603; 9780993516610
Subjects: Women (Islamic law); Women in the Qurʼan; Women in Islam; Islamic sociology; Women's rights; Social conditions; Muslim women; Feminism; Islam
Work titles: Coran et les femmes
Description: "Today, the issue of Muslim women is held hostage between two extreme perceptions: that of a rigid and conservative Islamic approach and that of a Western ethnocentric and Islamophobic approach. These two perceptions lead to an impasse in which it is virtually impossible, given how embedded ideas are fixed to respective certainties, to conceive of a fair and objective debate aimed at clarifying the two perspectives. Nevertheless, recent developments mean that at the heart of this intellectual effervescence, Muslim women are seeking to reclaim their right to speak in order to re-appropriate their own destinies. Indeed, today many female Muslim intellectuals living in Muslim societies and in the West, are questioning a number of negative preconceptions surrounding these issues. In particular, they contest the classical analysis which stipulates inequality between men and women and the attendant discriminatory measures, as being an inherent part of the sacred text by asserting that it is in fact certain biased readings, endorsed by patriarchal customs, which have legitimated these erroneous inequalities.This new perspective argues that Muslim women should be free to make their own choices, to rewrite their history and to define their own spaces of freedom - a freedom that is firmly anchored in a spiritual belonging but which is open on all human experiences and is ready to share with others - all others - the Qur'an's universal values of ethics and justice." --Provided by publisher.
Notes: Translation of: Le Coran et les femmes : une lecture de libération.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface to the English Edition; title: Introducing the author; title: Thanks; title: Introduction: What kind of liberation are we speaking of?; title: In the very beginning; title: Part One: When the Qur'an speaks of women; title: Part Two: When the Qur'an speaks to women; title: Conclusion: Islam or the story of an aborted women's revolution