عنوان

Intersections: Modernity, gender, and Qur' anic exegesis

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Intersections: Modernity, gender, and Qur' anic exegesis

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Hadia Mubarak

Opwis, Felicitas M.

Georgetown University

2014

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Committee members: Brown, Jonathan A.; Voll, John O.

Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-321-19417-3

Ph.D.

Arabic and Islamic Studies

Georgetown University

2014

Modernity imparted a new theoretical significance to the issue of gender reform in the Muslim world. This dissertation examines the impact of modernity on the hermeneutical approaches and interpretations of three modern exegetes on significant gender issues in the Qur'an. It compares the tafs ir works of Muhammad 'Abduh, Sayyid Qutb, and Muhammad al-Tahir ibn 'Ashur with those of pre-modern exegetes concerning three Qur'anic verses: 2:228, 4:3, and 4:34. These verses, among others, gained significance in modern exegetes' quest to articulate Islam's position on gender, a debate that was tied to the larger ideological question on whether or not Islam was fit for modern times. By situating the exegeses of 'Abduh, Qutb, and Ibn 'Ash ur within their broader historical and intellectual contexts, this dissertation demonstrates how their tafsir on gender reflects their engagement with the broader contemporaneous debates on gender and Islam in late-nineteenth- and mid-twentieth century Egypt and Tunisia. The interpretations of all three modern exegetes evince a heightened gender-consciousness that is absent from the interpretations of pre-modern exegetes on the same verses. This underscores the particularity of an exegetical gender-consciousness to the modern period.

Religion; Islamic Studies; Gender studies

Philosophy, religion and theology;Social sciences;Exegesis;Gender;Islamic thought;Modernity;Quran;Tradition

Al Desoukie, Omnia

Opwis, Felicitas M.

Arabic and Islamic Studies

Georgetown University

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