عنوان

Intersections: Modernity, gender, and Qur' anic exegesis

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TL47927

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انگلیسی

Title Proper

Intersections: Modernity, gender, and Qur' anic exegesis

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[Thesis]

First Statement of Responsibility

Hadia Mubarak

Subsequent Statement of Responsibility

Opwis, Felicitas M.

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Georgetown University

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2014

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

316

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

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

Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree

Ph.D.

Discipline of degree

Arabic and Islamic Studies

Body granting the degree

Georgetown University

Text preceding or following the note

2014

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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

Subject Term

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

Al Desoukie, Omnia

Opwis, Felicitas M.

Subdivision

Arabic and Islamic Studies

Georgetown University

Call Number

1616729141; 3637048

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