Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-322) and index.
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The Qur'ān and Muslim women : reading patriarchy, reading liberation -- Part I. Texts, contexts, and religious meaning. Texts and textualities : the Qur'ān, Tafsīr, and Ahādith -- Intertextualities, extratextual contexts : the Sunnah, Sharī'ah, and the state -- Part II. God, the prophets, and fathers. The patriarchal imaginary of father/s : divine ontology and the prophets -- Abraham's sacrifice in the Qur'ān : beyond the body -- Part III. Unreading and rereading patriarchy. The Qur'ān, sex/gender, and sexuality : sameness, difference, equality -- The family and marriage : retrieving the Qur'ān's egalitarianism -- Secular-/feminism and the Qur'ān -- Postscript.