Part Three Revisiting the issue of minor marriages: multidisciplinary Ijtihad on contemporary ethical problems / Islamic Feminist Tafsir and Qur'anic Ethics: Rereading Divorce Verses / Yasmin Amin. Tafsir, Tradition, and Methodological Contestations: the Case of Polygamy / Nevin Reda -- Reading the Qur'an Through a Gendered, Egalitarian Lens: Revisiting the Concept of Wilaya in Q. 9:71 / Asma Afsaruddin -- Part Two: Figurative representation: HĐĐadith and biographical dictionaries -- How did Eve get married? Two Twelver Shi'i HĐĐadith reports / Amina Inloes -- Female figures, marginality, and Qur'anic exegesis in Ibn al-Jawzi's Sifat al safwa / Aisha Geissinger -- Constructing the image of the Model Muslim Woman: gender discourse in Ibn Sa'd's Kitab al-tabaqat al-kubra / Amira Abou-Taleb -- Love of Prophet Muhammad for the Jewish woman Rayhana bint Zayd: Transformation and continuity in gender conceptions in Classical Islamic historiography and Ahadith literature / Doris Decker -- Part Three Fiqh and its applications -- Fiqh rulings and gendering the public space: The discrepancy between written formality and daily reality / Hoda El-Saadi -- Mysterious legislation: 'Umar ibn al-Khattab's Role in the legalization of the stoning punishment in the Sunni Islamic Tradition / Sarah Eltantawi -- Revisiting the issue of minor marriages: multidisciplinary Ijtihad on contemporary ethical problems / Yasmin Amin.
Summary:
"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 of 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."-- Provided by publisher.
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