Believing Women in Islam by Asma Barlas

Believing Women in Islam by Asma Barlas is a study of how the Qur'an speaks about women, and of the readings that have shaped Muslim understandings of gender.

The book engages the Qur'anic text directly, asking what it says about women, equality and authority, and how later interpretation has sometimes moved away from that text. It is a work of Qur'anic interpretation and argument, concerned with recovering a reading of Islam in which believing women stand as full moral and spiritual agents.

What readers will explore:

• Qur'anic teaching on women, equality and moral agency
• Interpretation and misinterpretation of the Qur'anic text
• Gender, authority and patriarchy in Muslim thought
• A believing woman's place in Islam, on the Qur'an's own terms

Who this book is for: Readers interested in the Qur'an, gender in Islam, and contemporary Islamic thought, including students and general readers alike.

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