Autorentext

Asma Barlas is a professor of politics at Ithaca College. Her other books include Re-understanding Islam: A Double Critique and Islam, Muslims, and the US: Essays on Religion and Politics.

David Raeburn Finn is a Canadian philosopher and student of Islam. He currently writes on Pashtun anthropology, gender and Islam, American foreign policy, and politics, as well as fiction for children and adults.

Klappentext

This inviting book presents a simplified version of Believing Women in Islam: Unreading Patriarchal Interpretations of the Qur'an that will help general readers and students understand its argument for women's equality.

Inhalt

• Notes on Style
• Preface: A Simpler Believing Women (Asma Barlas)
• Acknowledgments
• 1. Interpreting Scripture: A Core Dispute
• 2. The Qur' n: God’s Remedy for an Imperfect Humanity
• 3. Patriarchal Readings of the Qur' n
• 4. Methods and Revelation
• 5. Patriarchy
• 6. Equality and Difference
• 7. Family, Marriage, and Equality
• 8. Critical Dilemmas in Interpreting the Qur' n (David Raeburn Finn)
• Afterword: Converging Themes (David Raeburn Finn)
• Notes
• Select Bibliography
• Index