Gender Hierarchy in the Qur'ān: Medieval Interpretations, Modern Responses by Karen Bauer

Gender Hierarchy in the Qur'ān: Medieval Interpretations, Modern Responses

Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization

Karen Bauer

322 pages • first pub 2015 (editions)

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This book explores how medieval and modern Muslim religious scholars ('ulamā') interpret gender roles in Qur'ānic verses on legal testimony, marriage, and human creation. Citing these verses, medieval scholars developed increasingly complex laws a...

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