Muslim Women and Gender Justice
Title | Muslim Women and Gender Justice PDF eBook |
Author | Dina El Omari |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 290 |
Release | 2019-09-20 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1351025325 |
This volume brings together the work of a group of Islamic studies scholars from across the globe. They discuss how past and present Muslim women have participated in the struggle for gender justice in Muslim communities and around the world. The essays demonstrate a diversity of methodological approaches, religious and secular sources, and theoretical frameworks for understanding Muslim negotiations of gender norms and practices. Part I (Concepts) puts into conversation women scholars who define Muslima theology and Islamic feminism vis-à-vis secular notions of gender diversity and discuss the deployment of the oppression of Muslim women as a hegemonic imperialist strategy. The chapters in Part II (Sources) engage with the Qur’an, hadith, and sunna as religious sources to be examined and reinterpreted in the quest for gender justice as God’s will and the example of the Prophet Muhammad. In Part III (Histories), contributors search for Muslim women’s agency as scholars, thinkers, and activists from the early period of Islam to the present – from Southeast Asia to North America. Representing a transnational and cross-generational conversation, this work will be a key resource to students and scholars interested in the history of Islamic feminism, Muslim women, gender justice, and Islam.
Islam and Gender Justice
Title | Islam and Gender Justice PDF eBook |
Author | V. A. Mohamad Ashrof |
Publisher | Gyan Books |
Total Pages | 340 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9788178354569 |
A solemn attempt to rediscover the Qurnic basis of gender equality, determining the status of women in Islam, to recapture the spirit of quranic revelation further to reconstruct Islamic theology from an egalitarian perspectives. A comprehensive and exhaustive study.
Muslim Women's Quest for Gender Justice
Title | Muslim Women's Quest for Gender Justice PDF eBook |
Author | Mengia Hong Tschalaer |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 277 |
Release | 2017-07-04 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 1107155770 |
"Discusses the claim that understanding the legal world as plural is an important starting point to think about women's access to justice"--
Muslim Women's Quest for Gender Justice: Gender
Title | Muslim Women's Quest for Gender Justice: Gender PDF eBook |
Author | Mengia Hong Tschalaer |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781108226561 |
Islam, Women, and Gender Justice
Title | Islam, Women, and Gender Justice PDF eBook |
Author | Asghar Ali Engineer |
Publisher | Virago Press |
Total Pages | 380 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN |
It brings light to all issues, concerning women, in relation to Islam and makes clarifications on the misunderstanding on gender justice in Islam. Being a reputed Islamic theologian, his statements ascend logical exclusiveness with the discovery of true Islamic commands to the second sex. A benchmark for the disciplines of Islamic and women studies.
Women Under Islam
Title | Women Under Islam PDF eBook |
Author | Christina Jones-Pauly |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | 558 |
Release | 2011-04-30 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0857720139 |
How Islam treats women is one of the most hotly contested questions of our times. Islamic law is often misrepresented as a single monolithic concept, rather than a collection of different interpretations and practices. To move the debate on Islamic law and gender forward, it is necessary to establish how Islamic law actually operates. This groundbreaking work explores what conditions sustain the most liberal interpretation of Islamic law on gender issues. It examines the different interpretations, histories and practices of Islamic law in different countries. It finds that the political independence of judicial institutions is a far more important factor than the relative conservativism of the society. This wide-ranging book will provide new insights not only for those studying law and gender, but for anyone with an interest in Islamic societies.
Gender Justice in Muslim-Christian Readings
Title | Gender Justice in Muslim-Christian Readings PDF eBook |
Author | Anne Hege Grung |
Publisher | BRILL |
Total Pages | 495 |
Release | 2015-09-29 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9004306706 |
In recent decades, women in the Christian and Islamic traditions have been negotiating what it means to participate in religious practice as a woman within the two traditions, and how to interpret canonical scripture. This book creates a shared space for Muslim and Christian women with diverse cultural and denominational backgrounds, by making meaning of texts from the Bible, the Koran, and the Hadith. It builds on the reading and discussion of the Hagar narratives, as well as 1 Timothy 2:8-15 and Sura 4:34 from the New Testament and the Koran respectively, by a group of both Christian and Muslim women. Interpretative strategies and contextual analyses emerge from the hermeneutical analysis of the women’s discussions on the ambiguous contributions of the texts mentioned above to the traditional views on women. This book shows how intertextual dialogue between the Christian and Islamic traditions establishes an interpretative community through the encounter of Christian and Muslim readers. The negotiation between a search for gender justice and the Christian and Islamic traditions as lived religions is extended into a quest for gender justice through the co-reading of texts. In times when gender and the status of women are played into the field of religious identity politics, this book shows that bringing female readers together to explore the canonical texts in the two traditions provides new insights about the texts, the contexts, and the ways in which Muslim-Christian dialogue can provide complex and promising hermeneutical space where important questions can be posed and shared strategies found.