Woman's Identity and the Qur'an: A New Reading

by Nimat Hafez Barazangi

Book Overview

An original study of the Qur'anic foundations of women's identity and agency, this book is a bold call to Muslim women and men to reread and reinterpret the Qur'an and to discover within its revelations an inherent affirmation of gender equality.Barazangi asserts that Muslim women have been generally excluded from full participation in Islamic society, and thus from full and equal Islamic identity, primarily because of patriarchal readings of the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813027853
• ISBN13: 9780813027852
• Release Date: December 2004
• Publisher: University Press of Florida
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.7" x 9.3"