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Author Barlas, Asma.

Title Believing women in Islam : unreading patriarchal interpretations of the Qur'an / by Asma Barlas.

Imprint Austin, TX : University of Texas Press, 2002.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  297.1228305 B248b 2002    ---  Available
Description xvi, 254 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-248) and index.
Contents Qur'an and Muslim women : reading patriarchy, reading liberation -- Part I : Texts and textualities : the Qur'an, Tafsir, and Ahadith ; Intertextualities, extratextual contexts : the Sunnah, Shari'ah, and the state -- Part II : Patriarchal imaginary of father/s : divine ontology and the prophets ; Qur'an, sex/gender, and sexuality : sameness, difference, equality ; Family and marriage : retrieving the Qur'an's egalitarianism.
Subject Women in Islam.
Women in the Koran.
Women's rights -- Religious aspects -- Islam.
ISBN 0292709048 (pbk. : alk. paper)
029270903X (cloth : alk. paper)

 
    
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