Qur'an and Woman

by Amina W. Muhsin, Amina, Amina Wadud-Muhsin

This is an analysis of the concept of woman drawn directly from the Qur'an. An explicit attempt to return to the original source--the Qur'an--when the tendency has been to confuse the works of Islamic scholars with the Qur'an, it demonstrates that in order to maintain its relevance, the Qur'an must be continually reinterpreted; that the importance of the Qur'anic text is its transcendence of time and its expression of eternal values. It is not the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9676519766
• ISBN13: 9789676519764
• Release Date: May 1993
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.