Muslim Feminist Theology in the United States

This article¹ discusses contemporary feminist exegesis of the Qur’an by Muslim women scholars located in the United States,² arguing that, studied as a whole, their works constitute an emergent field of Muslim feminist theology in the United States. All of these works, authored beginning in the 1980...

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1. Verfasser:	Aysha Hidayatullah
Format:	Buchkapitel
Sprache:	eng
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Zusammenfassung:	This article¹ discusses contemporary feminist exegesis of the Qur’an by Muslim women scholars located in the United States,² arguing that, studied as a whole, their works constitute an emergent field of Muslim feminist theology in the United States. All of these works, authored beginning in the 1980s, criticize sexism and male normativity in the exegesis of the Qur’an and advocate the full personhood and moral agency of Muslim womenwithinthe parameters of the Qur’an, understood as the Divine Word of God. The field’s leading works are authored by Riffat Hassan, Azizah al-Hibri, Amina Wadud, and Asma Barlas. Other key