Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Perplexity of a Muslim WomanCondition: NewSubtitle: Over Inheritance, Marriage, and HomosexualityISBN-10: 1498541690EAN: 9781498541695ISBN: 9781498541695Publisher: Lexington BooksFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 03/08/2017Description: Using the methodology of modern scholars in the fields of Arabic lexicography, linguistics, and psychoanalysis, Tunisian feminist scholar Olfa Youssef investigates the rulings about inheritance, marriage, and homosexuality in the Qur’anic text itself and compares them with the interpretations provided by male Muslim theologians and legal scholars from medieval times to the present. In this book, she makes five central arguments: (1) There is a discrepancy between the layered signification in the Qur’anic text itself and the sutured explanations by religious scholars which have been enacted into law in many Muslim countries today; (2) the plurality of meanings is the quintessential essence of the Qur’an as evidenced in the absence of any sura over which there was unanimous agreement among Muslim scholars; (3) when male privilege was at stake, male legal scholars, to protect their own interests, ignored the divine text and based their rulings on human consensus; (4) Muslim medieval views on gender and homosexuality were more tolerant than contemporary ones; and finally (5), preferring indetermination and perplexity over the finality and certainties found in the judgements of male theologians, Youssef argues that only God knows the Qur’an’s true meaning. Her job as a Muslim female scholar is only to raise questions over those human interpretations that many Muslim societies mistake for divine will.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 240mmItem Length: 158mmItem Width: 17mmItem Weight: 381gAuthor: Olfa YoussefTranslator: Lamia BenyoussefContributor: Lamia Benyoussef (Translated by)Genre: Society & CultureTopic: Gender Sex & Relationships, Social Sciences, Law & PoliticsRelease Year: 2017 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: The Perplexity of a Muslim Woman
Title: The Perplexity of a Muslim Woman
Subtitle: Over Inheritance, Marriage, and Homosexuality
ISBN-10: 1498541690
EAN: 9781498541695
ISBN: 9781498541695
Release Date: 03/08/2017
Release Year: 2017
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Translator: Lamia Benyoussef
Contributor: Lamia Benyoussef (Translated by)
Genre: Society & Culture
Topic: Law & Politics
Number of Pages: 164 Pages
Publication Name: Perplexity of a Muslim Woman : over Inheritance, Marriage, and Homosexuality
Language: English
Publisher: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
Item Height: 0.7 in
Publication Year: 2017
Subject: Islam / Koran & Sacred Writings, Islamic Studies, Sexuality & Gender Studies, Property
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 13.5 Oz
Subject Area: Law, Religion, Social Science
Author: Olfa Youssef
Item Length: 9.4 in
Item Width: 6.2 in
Format: Hardcover
