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3 3 N This pioneering volume defines the contours of the emerging engagements of E Muslim women scholars from around the world with the authoritative inter- I D pretive traditions of Islam, classical and contemporary. Muslima theology, en- U compassing a range of perspectives and arising from multiple social locations, T now claims a place alongside womanist and mujerista readings that interrogate S scripture and other forms of religious discourse to empower women of faith to M speak for themselves in the interests of gender justice. A L S I R y E og N ol E The I W a m i l s u M ) · s. d e ( i n e d e M f i l E n / e s n a m r e H Ednan Aslan / Marcia Hermansen / a ci Elif Medeni (eds.) r a Ednan Aslan is Chair of the Institute for Islamic Studies and Islamic Religious M Education in the Centre for Teacher Education at the University of Vienna. n / Muslima Theology a Marcia Hermansen is Director of the Islamic World Studies program and Pro- sl A fessor in the Theology Department at Loyola University Chicago. n The Voices of Muslim Women Theologians a Elif Medeni is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Education at the Uni- n d versity of Vienna. E ISBN 978-3-631-62899-7 WISL 03-262899_Aslan_VH_A5HC Entwurf3.indd 1 05.06.13 11:01 3 3 N This pioneering volume defines the contours of the emerging engagements of E Muslim women scholars from around the world with the authoritative inter- I D pretive traditions of Islam, classical and contemporary. Muslima theology, en- U compassing a range of perspectives and arising from multiple social locations, T now claims a place alongside womanist and mujerista readings that interrogate S scripture and other forms of religious discourse to empower women of faith to M speak for themselves in the interests of gender justice. A L S I R y E og N ol E The I W a m i l s u M ) · s. d e ( i n e d e M f i l E n / e s n a m r e H Ednan Aslan / Marcia Hermansen / a ci Elif Medeni (eds.) r a Ednan Aslan is Chair of the Institute for Islamic Studies and Islamic Religious M Education in the Centre for Teacher Education at the University of Vienna. n / Muslima Theology a Marcia Hermansen is Director of the Islamic World Studies program and Pro- sl A fessor in the Theology Department at Loyola University Chicago. n The Voices of Muslim Women Theologians a Elif Medeni is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Education at the Uni- n d versity of Vienna. E WISL 03-262899_Aslan_VH_A5HC Entwurf3.indd 1 05.06.13 11:01 Muslima Theology WIENER ISLAMSTUDIEN Herausgegeben von Ednan Aslan Band 3 Ednan Aslan / Marcia Hermansen / Elif Medeni (eds.) Muslima Theology The Voices of Muslim Women Theologians Bibliographic Information published by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek The Deutsche Nationalbibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche Nationalbibliografie; detailed bibliographic data is available in the internet at http://dnb.d-nb.de. Cover Design: © Olaf Gloeckler, Atelier Platen, Friedberg Cover illustration: © Anadolu Agency Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Muslima theology : the voices of Muslim women theologians / Ednan Aslan, Marcia Hermansen, Elif Medeni (eds.). pages cm. — (Wiener Islamstudien ; Bd. 3) Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 978-3-631-62899-7 1. Women in Islam. 2. Islam—Doctrines. 3. Women theologi ans—Islamic countries. I. Aslan, Ednan, 1959- II. Hermansen, Marcia K., 1951- III. Medeni, Elif. BP173.4.M935 2013 297.2082—dc23 2013021602 ISSN 2194-7988 ISBN 978-3-631-62899-7 (Print) E-ISBN 978-3-653-03238-3 (E-Book) DOI 10.3726/978-3-653-03238-3 © Peter Lang GmbH Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften Frankfurt am Main 2013 All rights reserved. Peter Lang Edition is an Imprint of Peter Lang GmbH. Peter Lang - Frankfurt am Main • Bern • Bruxelles • New York • Oxford • Warszawa • Wien All parts of this publication are protected by copyright. Any utilisation outside the strict limits of the copyright law, without the permission of the publisher, is forbidden and liable to prosecution. This applies in particular to reproductions, translations, microfilming, and storage and processing in electronic retrieval systems. www.peterlang.de Table of Contents 9 Series editor’s foreword 11 I ntroduction: The New Voices of Muslim Women Theologians Marcia Hermansen PART 1— MUSLIM WOMEN THEOLOGIANS: HISTORICAL AND AS CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVES 35 E arly Community Politics and the Marginalization of Women in Islamic Intellectual History Ednan Aslan 45 Muslim Women as Religious Scholars: A Historical Survey Zainab Alwani 59 F eminist Readings of the Quran: Social, Political, and Religious Implications Ndeye Adújar 81 M uslim Feminist Theology in the United States Aysha Hidayatullah 5 PART 2—THEOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY AND MUSLIM WOMEN 101 Women and Man’s “Fall”: A Qur’anic Theological Perspective Riffat Hassan 115 The Position of Woman in the Creation: A Qur’anic Perspective Hatice Arpaguş 133 Misogynistic Reports in the Hadith Literature Hidayet Şefkatli Tuksal 155 Gender Justice and Gender Jih d—Possibilities and Limits of Qur’anic ā Interpretation for Women’s Liberation Muna Tatari PART 3—MUSLIM WOMEN AND ISLAMIC RELIGIOUS LAW 167 G endering Ritual: A Muslima’s Reading of the Laws of Purity and Ritual Preclusion Celene Ayat Lizzio 181 Ibn Taymiyya’s Feminism? Imprisonment and the Divorce Fatwas Carolyn Baugh 6 197 S exing the Prayer: The Politics of Ritual and Feminist Activism in Indonesia Etin Anwar 217 V iolence Against Women in Qur’an 4:34: A Sacred Ordinance? Rabha Al-Zeera PART 4 — MUSLIMA CONSTRUCTIVE THEOLOGY 231 From Sexual Difference to Religious Difference: Toward a Muslima Theology of Religious Pluralism Jerusha Tanner Lamptey 247 Resisting the Veil of Universalism: Muslim Womanist Philosophy as a Lens for Authentic Representations of African American Muslim Women Debra Majeed 267 In Search of al-Ins n: ā Sufism, Islamic Law, and Gender Sa‘diyya Shaikh 309 B ibliography 335 Contributor Biographies 7
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