We are very pleased to announce the publication of a groundbreaking anthology that explores a critical and contentious theme: women in the聽蚕耻谤鈥檃苍聽and 蚕耻谤鈥檃苍ic interpretation.
An Anthology of Qur’anic Commentaries, Volume 2:聽On Women, edited by聽Dr Karen Bauer聽and Dr Feras Hamza, represents a unique new resource for all scholars and students of the聽蚕耻谤鈥檃苍聽and its interpretations, Islamic studies, and women and gender.
The volume starts with an introduction that for the first time follows the Qur示anic narrations on women in a chronological sequence, showing how its worldview developed. This innovative analysis is followed by translations of key 蚕耻谤鈥檃苍ic verses on women and commentaries on these spanning the eighth to the twentieth centuries.
On Women聽also includes interviews with leading Muslim scholars, bringing the historical commentaries into dialogue with contemporary perspectives, including those of women. By doing so, it probes the impact of the medieval interpretive tradition on modern Muslim women鈥檚 rights, social status, intellectual authority, and spiritual standing within their communities.
The book鈥檚 co-editor Dr Karen Bauer is a Senior Research Associate at the 午夜剧场. She is the author of聽Gender Hierarchy in the Qur示膩n: Medieval Interpretations, Modern Responses聽and editor of聽Aims, Methods and Contexts of 蚕耻谤鈥檃苍ic Exegesis (2nd/8th鈥9th/15th Centuries). She has also written numerous articles on the history of 蚕耻谤鈥檃苍ic interpretation, women鈥檚 status in Islamic interpretation and the history of emotions in Islam.
Dr Feras Hamza, co-editor, is Head of the School of the Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Wollongong in Dubai, UAE, and a Research Fellow at the 午夜剧场. He co-edited the first volume in the聽Anthologies of 蚕耻谤鈥檃苍ic Commentaries听蝉别谤颈别蝉,听On the Nature of the Divine, and is the general series editor for the multi-volume project.
