Recovering the Female Voice in Islamic Scripture

Women and Silence

AvGeorgina L. Jardim

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

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Beskrivning

Protest is an activity not associated with the pious and collectively-minded, but more often seen as an activity of the liberal and rebellious. Judaism, Christianity and Islam are commonly understood as paragons of submission and obedience following Abraham’s example. Yet, the scriptures of all three faiths are founded in the prophets protesting wrongs in the social order. The Qur'an claims that men and women, and the relations between them are a sign from God. The question is to what extent are women silenced in the text, and do they share with men in shaping the prophetic scriptures? This book finds that far from silencing women, the Qur'an affirms the female voice as protester for justice and as questioner of Theology. In this reading of the female role in divine revelation in the Islamic text, Georgina Jardim returns to the scriptures of the Judeo-Christian counterpart of the Abrahamic faiths, to investigate whether the Bible may claim women as brokers of revelation. The result is an enriched understanding of divine communication in the Abrahamic scriptures and a commonplace for reasoning about the female voice as speaker in the Word of God.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2018-02-12
Mått:156 x 234 x 20 mm
Vikt:520 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Routledge New Critical Thinking in Religion, Theology and Biblical Studies
Antal sidor:276
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:9781138547018

Utforska kategorier

Islam inom Filosofi och religion
Religion: allmänt inom Filosofi och religion
Genusvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Georgina L. Jardim read a PhD at the University of Gloucestershire, UK on obscure female characters in the Qur'an, bringing these conversations about community formation and the roles of women to bear on her study of the Qur'an as a Christian woman. She has taught in tertiary institutions in South Africa, and was a lecturer in Semitic languages at a Theological Seminary of the North West University in South Africa. She has also taught in the United Kingdom in both secondary and tertiary education and is currently pursuing ways to engage in, and further, cross-cultural dialogue within the Abrahamic religions.

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'The absence of women’s voices from the scriptures of the major world religions has been the subject of feminist theologians’ inquiry, especially during the past three decades. Georgina Jardim's work in feminist scholarship and women’s study is impressive. This book provides a fine synopsis of some of the important works in Islamic hermeneutical tradition while set in a comparative framework. As such, it is a great contribution to the comparative feminist hermeneutics of scripture.' American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction: Women’s Voice and the Public Space 1 Theology of Religions and Interfeminist Dialogue 2 Deconstructing the Qur`an’s Paradigmatic Women 3 Towards a Qur`anic Hermeneutic for Gendered Reading: Theological Approaches 4 Towards a Qur`anic Hermeneutic for Gendered Reading: Literary Approaches 5 Sign as Qur`anic Hermeneutic 6 From Signs, to Titles, to Women 7 Prophetic Disagreement in the Qur`an 8 Narratological Analysis of the Mujādilah 9 The Mujādilah as Trope for Interfeminist Dialogue Conclusion