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- Title: Amina Wadud and Feminist Interpretation of Surah 4:34
- Author : Alexandra Samoleit
- Release Date : January 13, 2008
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 238 KB
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The paper introduces the North-American Muslim scholar and feminist Amina Wadud. Her work is focused on finding ways to produce a gender-conscious tafsir of the Quran based on hermeneutic methodology. She wants to show how the egalitarian quranic principles concerning women have been distorted through the history of exegesis. Those principles have to be re-examined to achieve an understanding of the revelation that is appropriate for modern times. Her perspective is related to general Islamic feminist discourse and its opinion concerning quranic exegesis. The methodological approach used by Wadud concentrates on four points: the reader as subject, the Arabic language as barrier to interpretation, historical contextualization and gender as interpretive category. Her own exegesis arrives at a egalitarian interpretation of the Qur'an that contradicts tafsir tradition and caused heated discussions in the global Muslim community in recent years. Seminar paper aus dem Jahr 2007 im Fachbereich Orientalistik / Sinologie - Islamwissenschaft, Note: 1,0, Universität Erfurt, 16 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis.