Muslima Theology : The Voices of Muslim Women Theologians

Ednan Aslan, Marcia Hermansen, Elif Medeni

• Publisher: Peter Lang International Academic Publishers
• Year: 2014
• eBook ISBN:
  9783653032383
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Theology

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, encompassing a range of perspectives and arising from multiple social locations, now claims a place alongside womanist and mujerista readings that interrogate scripture and other forms of religious discourse to empower women of faith to speak for themselves in the interests of gender justice.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Table of Contents
• Series editor’s foreword
• Introduction. The New Voices of Muslim Women Theologians
• Early Community Politics and the Marginalization of Women in Islamic Intellectual History
• Muslim Women as Religious Scholars: A Historical Survey
• Feminist Readings of the Qur’an: Social, Political, and Religious Implications
• Muslim Feminist Theology in the United States
• Woman and Man’s “fall”: A Qur’anic Theological Perspective
• The Position of Woman in the Creation: A Qur’anic Perspective
• Misogynistic Reports in the Hadith Literature
• Gender Justice and Gender Jihad: Possibilities and Limits of Qur’anic Interpretation for Women’s Liberation
• Gendering Ritual: A Muslima’s Reading of the Laws of Purity and Ritual Preclusion
• Ibn Taymiyya’s Feminism? Imprisonment and the Divorce Fatwās
• Sexing the Prayer: The Politics of Ritual and Feminist Activism in Indonesia
• Violence against Women in Qur’an 4:34: A Sacred Ordinance?
• From Sexual Difference to Religious Difference: Toward a Muslima Theology of Religious Pluralism
• Resisting the Veil of Universalism: Muslim Womanist Philosophy as a Lens for Authentic Representations of African American Muslim Women
• In Search of al-Insān: Sufism, Islamic Law, and Gender
• Book Bibliography
• Contributor Biographies