Muslim Women's Quest for Gender Justice

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
Pages 277
Release 2017-07-04
Genre Law
ISBN 1107155770

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"Discusses the claim that understanding the legal world as plural is an important starting point to think about women's access to justice"--

Gender Justice in Muslim-Christian Readings

Gender Justice in Muslim-Christian Readings
Title Gender Justice in Muslim-Christian Readings PDF eBook
Author Anne Hege Grung
Publisher BRILL
Pages 495
Release 2015-09-29
Genre Religion
ISBN 9004306706

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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.

Islamic Interpretive Tradition and Gender Justice

Islamic Interpretive Tradition and Gender Justice
Title Islamic Interpretive Tradition and Gender Justice PDF eBook
Author Nevin Reda
Publisher McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Pages
Release 2020-12-10
Genre Religion
ISBN 0228002966

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Since the 1980s, Muslim women reformers have made great strides in critiquing and reinterpreting the Islamic tradition. Yet these achievements have not produced a significant shift in the lived experience of Islam, particularly with respect to equality and justice in Muslim families. A new approach is needed: one that examines the underlying instruments of tradition and explores avenues for effecting change. In Islamic Interpretive Tradition and Gender Justice leading intellectuals and emerging researchers grapple with the problem of entrenched positions within Islam that affect women, investigating the processes by which interpretations become authoritative, the theoretical foundations upon which they stand, and the ways they have been used to inscribe and enforce gender limitations. Together, they argue that the Islamic interpretive tradition displays all the trappings of canonical texts, canonical figures, and canon law – despite the fact that Islam does not ordain religious authorities who could sanction processes of canonization. Through this lens, the essays in this collection offer insights into key issues in Islamic feminist scholarship, ranging from interreligious love, child marriage, polygamy, and divorce to stoning, segregation, seclusion, and gender hierarchies. Rooting their analysis in the primary texts and historical literature of Islam, contributors to Islamic Interpretive Tradition and Gender Justice contest oppressive interpretative canons, subvert classical methodologies, and provide new directions in the ongoing project of revitalizing Islamic exegesis and its ethical and legal implications.

American Muslim Women

American Muslim Women
Title American Muslim Women PDF eBook
Author Jamillah Karim
Publisher NYU Press
Pages 304
Release 2009
Genre Religion
ISBN 0814748104

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"Focusing on women, who sometimes move outside of their ethnic Muslim spaced and interact with other Muslim ethnic groups in search of gender justice, this ethnographic study of African American and South Asian immigrant Muslims in Chicago and Atlanta explores how Islamic ideas of racial harmony amd equality create hopeful possibilities in an American society that remains challenged by race and class inequalities."--Page 4 of cover.

Gender Equity in Islam

Gender Equity in Islam
Title Gender Equity in Islam PDF eBook
Author Jamal A. Badawi
Publisher
Pages 0
Release 2004
Genre Female genital mutilation
ISBN 9789698808006

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American Muslim Women, Religious Authority, and Activism

American Muslim Women, Religious Authority, and Activism
Title American Muslim Women, Religious Authority, and Activism PDF eBook
Author Juliane Hammer
Publisher University of Texas Press
Pages 296
Release 2012-04-01
Genre Religion
ISBN 0292735553

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Hammer looks at the work of significant female American Muslim writers, scholars, and activists since 1990, using their writings as a lens for a larger discussion of Muslim intellectual production in America and beyond. Centered on the controversial women-led Friday prayer in March 2005, Hammer uses this event and its aftermath to address themes of faith, community, and public opinion. While gender is the catalyst for Hammer's study, her examination of these women's intellectual output touches on themes central to contemporary Islam: authority, tradition, Islamic law, justice, and authenticity.

Access to Justice in Iran

Access to Justice in Iran
Title Access to Justice in Iran PDF eBook
Author Sahar Maranlou
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 277
Release 2015
Genre Law
ISBN 1107072603

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A critical and in-depth analysis of access to justice from international and Islamic perspectives, with a specific focus on access by women.