Believing Women in Islam : unreading patriarchal interpretations of the Quran _Asma Barlas

‘‘BelievingWomen’’ in Islam

Unreading Patriarchal

Interpretations of the Qur’an

by Asma Barlas

Format PDF  1.26

Pages 273

Preface xi

Acknowledgments xv

1. The Qur’an and Muslim Women:

Reading Patriarchy, Reading Liberation

Part I

2. Texts and Textualities: The Qur’ān, Tafsīr, and Ahādith

3. Intertextualities, Extratextual Contexts:

The Sunnah, Sharī‘ah, and the State

Part II

4. The Patriarchal Imaginary of Father/s:

Divine Ontology and the Prophets

5. The Qur’a¯n, Sex/Gender, and Sexuality:

Sameness, Difference, Equality

6. The Family and Marriage:

Retrieving the Qur’ān’s Egalitarianism

7. Postscript

Notes

Glossary

Select Bibliography

Index