"Believing Women" in Islam by Asma Barlas

Her other books include Re-understanding Islam: A Double Critique and Islam, Muslims, and the US: Essays on Religion and Politics. Barlas was previously the founding director of the Center for the Study of Culture, Race and Ethnicity at Ithaca College for twelve years, and held the Spinoza Chair in Philosophy at the University of Amsterdam. She earned a BA in English Literature and Philosophy from Kinnaird College, an MA in Journalism from the University of the Punjab, and an MA and PhD in International Studies from the University of Denver. She is currently a professor of politics at Ithaca College. About the AuthorĪsma Barlas is a Pakistani-American writer and academic.

This revised edition includes two new chapters, a new preface, and updates throughout. In this seminal volume, she takes readers into the heart of Islamic teachings on women, gender and patriarchy, offering an egalitarian reading of Islam’s most sacred scripture.

Offering a historical analysis of religious authority and knowledge, Barlas shows how, for centuries, Muslims have read patriarchy into the Qur’an to justify existing religious and social structures. In this paradigm-shifting book, Asma Barlas argues that, far from supporting male privilege, the Qur’an actually affirms the complete equality of the sexes. Forthcoming titles include Eric Berkowitz’s Sex and Punishment: Four Thousand Years of Judging Desire, Joumana Haddad’s Superman is an Arab: On God, Marriage, Macho Men and Other Disastrous Inventions and Joan Smith’s The Public Woman.ĭoes 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.

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&quot;Believing Women&quot; in Islam by Asma Barlas

"Believing Women" in Islam by Asma Barlas