Decoding the Egalitarianism of the Qur'an : Retrieving Lost Voices on Gender Hardback
by Abla Hasan
Part of the Lexington Studies in Classical and Modern Islamic Thought series
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This volume challenges a long history of normalizing patriarchal approaches to the Qur'an and calls for a questioning of the interpretive credibility of many inherited Qur'anic commentaries.
The author presents a fresh reading of the sacred text and Islamic teaching traditions as the rediscovery of a lost humanitarian and gender-egalitarian textual richness that has been poorly and loosely handled for centuries.
The book stresses the importance of reviewing the interpretive linguistic choices that jurists and exegetes over the last fourteen centuries have adopted to semantically reshape the Qur'anic text.
The vigilant reading the author provides of carefully chosen texts and commentaries suggests that many interpretive approaches to the Qur'an are dominated by sociopolitical factors alien to the intrinsic values of the text itself.
More importantly, inconsistencies across putatively sound books of tafsir indicate that the Qur'anic text often suffers from historical and systematic drainage of its humanitarianism, gender-egalitarianism, and religious pluralism.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:182 pages
- Publisher:Lexington Books
- Publication Date:28/10/2019
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- ISBN:9781793609892
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:182 pages
- Publisher:Lexington Books
- Publication Date:28/10/2019
- Category:
- ISBN:9781793609892
