Beschreibung:
This book finds that far from silencing women, the Qur'an affirms the female voice as protester for justice and as questioner of Theology. In this reading of the female role in divine revelation in the Islamic text, Georgina Jardim returns to the scriptures of the Judeo-Christian counterpart of the Abrahamic faiths, to investigate whether the Bible may claim women as brokers of revelation. The result is an enriched understanding of divine communication in the Abrahamic scriptures and a commonplace for reasoning about the female voice as speaker in the Word of God.
Introduction: Women's Voice and the Public Space 1 Theology of Religions and Interfeminist Dialogue 2 Deconstructing the Qur`an's Paradigmatic Women 3 Towards a Qur`anic Hermeneutic for Gendered Reading: Theological Approaches 4 Towards a Qur`anic Hermeneutic for Gendered Reading: Literary Approaches 5 Sign as Qur`anic Hermeneutic 6 From Signs, to Titles, to Women 7 Prophetic Disagreement in the Qur`an 8 Narratological Analysis of the Mujadilah 9 The Mujadilah as Trope for Interfeminist Dialogue Conclusion