By Na’eem Jeenah
Islamic scriptures – the Qur’ān and hadīth – contain the moral and ethical elements to develop a society based on egalitarianism – including gender equality. The challenge that faces feminist scholars of these scriptures is to develop and use hermeneutical models that reveal such liberatory potential, to realise within Islamic scriptures ‘a threshold for escape’ and to hear ‘that rare music that leads to dreaming’.
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