![]() ![]() Given such teachings, I could not figure out why God would have given husbands greater rights than their wives in some areas. For instance, it teaches that God is beyond sex/gender, that God created men and women from the same Self, that both were made God’s representatives on earth as well as one another’s mutual custodians, and that God will judge them in light of the same standards. ![]() When I first read the Qur’ān in my teens, I stumbled over these so-called “hierarchy verses” because I found the rest of the text so uplifting. ![]() This is because, out of its 6,000 verses, five or so have been interpreted by some scholars as giving husbands certain nonreciprocal rights vis-à-vis their wives. In brief, Muslims believe that the Qur’ān is God’s word exactly as it was revealed to the Prophet Muhammad in seventh-century Arabia.Īlthough most Muslims will point out, correctly, that the Qur’ān gave women certain inalienable rights 1,400 years ago, the truth is that for much of their history, most Muslims have interpreted the Qur’ān as privileging men. This volume is an introduction to my book Believing Women in Islam: Unreading Patriarchal Interpretations of the Qur’ān (University of Texas Press, 2019), and it explains, in simple terms, how I read Islam’s scripture and why. ![]()
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