Women and Gender in Islam - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Women and Gender in Islam write by Leila Ahmed. This book was released on 2021-03-16. Women and Gender in Islam available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A classic, pioneering account of the lives of women in Islamic history, republished for a new generation This pioneering study of the social and political lives of Muslim women has shaped a whole generation of scholarship. In it, Leila Ahmed explores the historical roots of contemporary debates, ambitiously surveying Islamic discourse on women from Arabia during the period in which Islam was founded to Iraq during the classical age to Egypt during the modern era. The book is now reissued as a Veritas paperback, with a new foreword by Kecia Ali situating the text in its scholarly context and explaining its enduring influence. “Ahmed’s book is a serious and independent-minded analysis of its subject, the best-informed, most sympathetic and reliable one that exists today.”—Edward W. Said “Destined to become a classic. . . . It gives [Muslim women] back our rightful place, at the center of our histories.”—Rana Kabbani, The Guardian
Women and Islam
Women and Islam - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Women and Islam write by Fatima Mernissi. This book was released on 2004-01-01. Women and Islam available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this book the author, who is both a feminist and a Muslim, aims to shed light on the status of women in Islam by examining and reassessing the literary sources as far back as seventh-century Islam. She portrays how, far from being the oppressor of women that his detractors have claimed, the Prophet upheld the equality of all true believers. Sifting through the mass of literature surrounding the life, works and teachings of Muhammad, some surprising facts emerge such as descriptions of how the wives of the Prophet discussed politics with him, and even went to war. Later restrictions and impositions on women such as the veil were never, she finds, the intention of the Prophet.
Believing Women in Islam
Believing Women in Islam - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Believing Women in Islam write by Asma Barlas. This book was released on 2019-01-16. Believing Women in Islam available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 Islamic teachings on women, gender, and patriarchy, allowing them to understand Islam through its most sacred scripture, rather than through Muslim cultural practices or Western media stereotypes. For this revised edition of Believing Women in Islam, Asma Barlas has written two new chapters—“Abraham’s Sacrifice in the Qur’an” and “Secular/Feminism and the Qur’an”—as well as a new preface, an extended discussion of the Qur’an’s “wife-beating” verse and of men’s presumed role as women’s guardians, and other updates throughout the book.
Women, Islam, and the State
Women, Islam, and the State - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Women, Islam, and the State write by Deniz Kandiyoti. This book was released on 1991. Women, Islam, and the State available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This collection of original essays examines the relationship between Islam, the nature of state projects, and the position of women in the modern nation states of the Middle East and South Asia. Arguing that Islam is not uniform across Muslim societies and that women's roles in these societies cannot be understood simply by looking at texts and laws. the contributors focus, instead, on the effects of the political projects of states on the lives of women.--provided by publisher.
The Rights and Duties of Women in Islam
The Rights and Duties of Women in Islam - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Rights and Duties of Women in Islam write by Abdul Ghaffar Hasan. This book was released on 2006. The Rights and Duties of Women in Islam available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
