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A constricting attitude towards the relationship between non-maḥram (marriageable) men and women is often either politically enforced or self-imposed in Muslim societies, with notions of separation and segregation upheld as normative ideals. This book challenges such interpretations, delineating a more permissive and nuanced position rooted in the Qur’an. Responding to the oft-held notion of men occupying the public sphere while women are restricted to the private, the book explores whether the Qur’an adopts a conception of gendered space and gendered roles.The book analyses the various forms of male–female interaction in the Qur’an, providing a comprehensive overview of gender relations and a critical dissection of restrictive readings. It also discusses clothing, offering a thorough overview of sartorial prescriptions in the Qur’an. Engaging with both classical and modern scholarship to provide a contextual reading, this book offers a comprehensive and expansive analysis of gender relations within a Qur’anic context.

A constricting attitude towards the relationship between non-mahram (marriageable) men and women is often either politically enforced or self-imposed in Muslim societies, with notions of separation and segregation upheld as normative ideals. This book challenges such interpretations, delineating a more permissive and nuanced position rooted in the Qur'an. Responding to the oft-held notion of men occupying the public sphere while women are restricted to the private, the book explores whether the Qur'an adopts a conception of gendered space and gendered roles. The book analyses the various forms of male-female interaction in the Qur'an, providing a comprehensive overview of gender relations and a critical dissection of restrictive readings. It also discusses clothing, offering a thorough overview of sartorial prescriptions in the Qur'an. Engaging with both classical and modern scholarship to provide a contextual reading, this book offers a comprehensive and expansive analysis of gender relations within a Qur'anic context.

A constricting attitude towards the relationship between non-mahram (marriageable) men and women is often either politically enforced or self-imposed in Muslim societies, with notions of separation and segregation upheld as normative ideals. This book challenges such interpretations, delineating a more permissive and nuanced position rooted in the Qur'an. Responding to the oft-held notion of men occupying the public sphere while women are restricted to the private, the book explores whether the Qur'an adopts a conception of gendered space and gendered roles. The book analyses the various forms of male-female interaction in the Qur'an, providing a comprehensive overview of gender relations and a critical dissection of restrictive readings. It also discusses clothing, offering a thorough overview of sartorial prescriptions in the Qur'an. Engaging with both classical and modern scholarship to provide a contextual reading, this book offers a comprehensive and expansive analysis of gender relations within a Qur'anic context.

The Qur'ān is the sacred religiousbook of Muslims around the world. Yet its history, from its inception in seventh-centuryArabia to its transmission in the modern world, remains understudied. Thetwelve chapters in this book address this lacuna by examining multifacetedstages in the Qur'ān's history and transmission through a broad range ofmethodological and theoretical approaches. The volume examines the earliestmaterial evidence of the Qur'ān through its manuscript tradition and explorestheir content and form. This includes a focus on the Qur'ān's uniqueorthography and insights into the Sanaa manuscripts. Additionally, this workprovides new insights by broaching upon critical moments in the Qur'ān'shistory, such as the codification of Abu Bakr. A crucial component of the bookdeals with approaches to the variant readings of the Qur'ān, understood asbeing sanctioned through narrations on the aḥruf. It explores freshinsights into how Muslim scholars theorised such variances and the way theyrelated them to the qira'āt, including how they approached thevariant codices of prominent companions. Furthermore, this work exploresunderstudied non-Qur'ānic transmissions of the Qur'ān alongside the historicaldevelopment of Qur'ān translations. This volume advances the field of Qur'ānicstudies and Qur'ānic history.