Believing Women in Islam: Unreading Patriarchal Interpretations of the Qur'an by Asma Barlas

Believing Women in Islam: Unreading Patriarchal Interpretations of the Qur'an

Asma Barlas

352 pages • first pub 2002 (view editions)

nonfiction feminism religion challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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Does Islam call for the oppression of women? The subjugation of women in many Muslim countries is often used as evidence of this, while many Muslims read the Qur'an in ways that seem to justify sexual oppression and inequality. In this paradigm-sh...

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