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BL
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1049833
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bc937
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| Language of Document
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English
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| Main Entry
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Hasan, Abla
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| Title & Author
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Decoding the egalitarianism of the Qur'an : : retrieving lost voices on gender /\ Abla Hasan.
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| Publication Statement
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Lanham :: Lexington Books,, [2020]
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, ©2020
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| Series Statement
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Lexington studies in classical and modern Islamic thought
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| Page. NO
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1 online resource (183 pages)
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| ISBN
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179360990X
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: 9781793609908
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9781793609892
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1793609896
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-162) and index.
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| Contents
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Introduction -- Decoding the egalitarianism of the Qur'an -- Gender egalitarianism in the Qur'an -- Marriage in the Qur'an -- Female body-ownership -- Woman's agency in the Qur'an -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Subject index -- About the author.
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| Abstract
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This volume challenges a long history of normalizing patriarchal approaches to the Qur'an and calls for a questioning of the interpretive credibility of many inherited Qur'anic commentaries. The author presents a fresh reading of the sacred text and Islamic teaching traditions as the rediscovery of a lost humanitarian and gender-egalitarian textual richness that has been poorly and loosely handled for centuries. The book stresses the importance of reviewing the interpretive linguistic choices that jurists and exegetes over the last fourteen centuries have adopted to semantically reshape the Qur'anic text. The vigilant reading the author provides of carefully chosen texts and commentaries suggests that many interpretive approaches to the Qur'an are dominated by sociopolitical factors alien to the intrinsic values of the text itself. More importantly, inconsistencies across putatively sound books of tafsīr indicate that the Qur'anic text often suffers from historical and systematic drainage of its humanitarianism, gender-egalitarianism, and religious pluralism.
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| Subject
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Sex role-- Religious aspects-- Islam.
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Sex role-- Religious aspects-- Islam.
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Qurʼan-- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Qurʼan.
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| Dewey Classification
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297.1226
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| LC Classification
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BP130.4.H373 2020 eb
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