Muslima Theology

Muslima theology now claims a place alongside womanist and mujerista readings. This pioneering volume defines the contours of the emerging engagements of Muslim women scholars from around the world with the authoritative interpretive traditions of Islam, classical and contemporary.

This pioneering volume defines the contours of the emerging engagements of Muslim women scholars from around the world with the authoritative interpretive traditions of Islam, classical and contemporary. Muslima theology, here broadly defined to encompass a range of interpretive strategies and perspectives arising from multiple social locations, interrogates Islamic scripture and other forms of religious discourse to empower Muslim women of faith to speak for themselves in the interests of gender justice. Contributions provide an overview of the field at this juncture-ranging from pioneering Muslim scriptural feminism to detailed analyses of legal and mystical texts by a new international cohort of Muslim women academics and activists. Contemporary female Muslim "constructivist" approaches articulate concerns with diversity, including race and religious pluralism, paralleling developments in womanist and mujerista readings of religious texts.

Auteur

Ednan Aslan is Chair of the Institute for Islamic Studies and Islamic Religious Education in the Centre for Teacher Education at the University of Vienna. Marcia Hermansen is Director of the Islamic World Studies program and Professor in the Theology Department at Loyola University Chicago. Elif Medeni is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Education at the University of Vienna.

Contenu
Contents: Marcia Hermansen: Introduction: The New Voices of Muslim Women Theologians Ednan Aslan: Early Community Politics and the Marginalization of Women in Islamic Intellectual History Zainab Alwani: Muslim Women as Religious Scholars: A Historical Survey Ndeye Adújar: Feminist Readings of the Quran: Social, Political, and Religious Implications Aysha Hidayatullah: Muslim Feminist Theology in the United States Riffat Hassan: Women and Man's «Fall»: A Qur'anic Theological Perspective Hatice Arpagu: The Position of Woman in the Creation: A Qur'anic Perspective Hidayet efkatli: Tuksal Misogynistic Reports in the Hadith Literature Muna Tatari: Gender Justice and Gender Jihd - Possibilities and Limits of Qur'anic Interpretation for Women's Liberation Celene Ayat Lizzio: Gendering Ritual: A Muslima's Reading of the Laws of Purity and Ritual Preclusion Carolyn Baugh: Ibn Taymiyya's Feminism? Imprisonment and the Divorce Fatwas Etin Anwar: Sexing the Prayer: The Politics of Ritual and Feminist Activism in Indonesia Rabha Al-Zeera: Violence Against Women in Qur'an 4:34: A Sacred Ordinance? Jerusha Tanner Lamptey: From Sexual Difference to Religious Difference: Toward a Muslima Theology of Religious Pluralism Debra Majeed: Resisting the Veil of Universalism: Muslim Womanist Philosophy as a Lens for Authentic Representations of African American Muslim Women Sa'diyya Shaikh: In Search of al-Insn: Sufism, Islamic Law, and Gender.