Believing Women in Islam: Unreading Patriarchal Interpretations of the Qur’an (Wierzące kobiety w islamie: odczytywanie na nowo patriarchalnych interpretacji Koranu)

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Asma Barlas published “Believing Women in Islam: Unreading Patriarchal Interpretations of the Qur’an” in 2002 with the University of Texas Press; a revised edition appeared in 2019. The first part examines the sources of patriarchal readings – the exegetical tradition, the hadith, and the formation of Islamic law in the early centuries – and argues that they rest on the interpreters’ social world rather than on the Qur’an. The second part reads the Qur’an itself on the nature of God, on the creation of human beings from a single self, on sex and gender, on marriage, divorce, polygamy and the much-discussed verse 4:34 on the relation of husbands and wives. Barlas’s key move is theological: God’s unity, justice and incomparability exclude reading the text as making men God’s deputies over women. The book became one of the reference works of Qur’anic hermeneutics on gender, alongside Amina Wadud’s Qur’an and Woman (1992).

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• Islam and Modernity (Islam i nowoczesność)1982 · Fazlur Rahman
• Qur’an and Woman (Koran i kobieta)1992 · Amina Wadud