Inside the Gender Jihad: Women's Reform in Islam

Dettagli prodotto

Casa editrice

ONEWORLD PUBN

Pubblicato

2006

Lingua

English

Pagine

306

Info

306 Pagine
225 mm x 152 mm

ISBN

978-1-85168-463-2

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword by Professor Khaled Abou El Fadl

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Inside the Gender Jihad, Reform in Islam

1 What's in a Name?

2 The Challenges of Teaching and Learning in the Creation of Muslim Women's Studies

3 Muslim Women's Collectives, Organizations, and Islamic Reform

4 A New Hajar Paradigm: Motherhood and Family

5 Public Ritual Leadership and Gender Inclusiveness

6 Qur'an, Gender, and Interpretive Possibilities

7 Stories from the Trenches

Conclusion: Why Fight the Gender Jihad?

Notes

Index

Recensione

"Seen as a pioneering feminist, her last book, Inside the Gender Jihad: Women's Reform in Islam (2006) was partly an experiment in autobiography, and included details of the threats to her life in New York."

Kurztext / Annotation

In this insightful study, Amina Wadud introduces the feminist movement in Islam and delves into its challenges, textual foundations in the Qur'an and its achievements.

In 2005, Amina Wadud made international headlines when she helped to promote new traditions by leading the Muslim Friday prayer in New York City. In her provocative new book, /Inside the Gender Jihad/, she brings a wealth of experience from the trenches of the jihad to make a passionate argument for gender inclusiveness in the Muslim world. Knitting together scrupulous scholarship with lessons drawn from her own experiences as a woman, she explores the array of issues facing Muslim women today, including social status, education, sexuality, and leadership. A major contribution to the debate on women and Islam, Amina Wadud's vision for changing the status of women within Islam is both revolutionary and urgent.

Informazioni sull'autore

Dr Amina Wadud is professor of Islamic Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University. She is author of the influential Qur'an and Woman: Rereading the Sacred Text from a Woman's Perspective.