By Asma Barlas
International Congress on Islamic Feminism, Barcelona, Spain, October 29, 2005
I’ve been asked to share my work on the Qur’an, and I will do so with the intent of demonstrating a connection between a Qur’anic hermeneutics and Muslim women’s liberation. Specifically, I will argue that Muslims can and indeed must read the Qur’an as a liberatory and antipatriarchal text, and I will also show why one doesn’t have to be a woman, or a feminist, to read it as such.
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