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"Believing Women" in Islam: Unreading Patriarchal Interpretations of the Qur'an, Revised Edition by Asma Barlas is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Does Islam call for the oppression of women? Non-Muslims point to the subjugation of women that occurs in many Muslim countries, especially those that claim to be "Islamic," while many Muslims read the Qur'an in ways that seem to justify sexual oppression, inequality, and patriarchy. Taking a wholly different view, Asma Barlas develops a believer's reading of the Qur'an that demonstrates the radically egalitarian and antipatriarchal nature of its teachings. Beginning with a historical analysis of religious authority and knowledge, Barlas shows how Muslims came to read inequality and patriarchy into the Qur'an to justify existing religious and social structures and demonstrates that the patriarchal meanings ascribed to the Qur'an are a function of who has read it, how, and in what contexts. She goes on to reread the Qur'an's position on a variety of issues in order to argue that its teachings do not support patriarchy. To the contrary, Barlas convincingly asserts that the Qur'an affirms the complete equality of the sexes, thereby offering an opportunity to theorize radical sexual equality from within the framework of its teachings. This new view takes readers into the heart of Islam

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Author

Asma Barlas

Publisher

University of Texas Press

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9780292796676

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Religion, History, Islam

Rating

4.2 / 5 (844 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14