Table Of Content3
3
N
This pioneering volume defines the contours of the emerging engagements of E
Muslim women scholars from around the world with the authoritative inter- I
D
pretive traditions of Islam, classical and contemporary. Muslima theology, en-
U
compassing a range of perspectives and arising from multiple social locations,
T
now claims a place alongside womanist and mujerista readings that interrogate S
scripture and other forms of religious discourse to empower women of faith to M
speak for themselves in the interests of gender justice. A
L
S
I
R
y E
og N
ol E
The I
W
a
m
i
l
s
u
M
) ·
s.
d
e
(
i
n
e
d
e
M
f
i
l
E
n /
e
s
n
a
m
r
e
H Ednan Aslan / Marcia Hermansen /
a
ci Elif Medeni (eds.)
r
a
Ednan Aslan is Chair of the Institute for Islamic Studies and Islamic Religious M
Education in the Centre for Teacher Education at the University of Vienna. n / Muslima Theology
a
Marcia Hermansen is Director of the Islamic World Studies program and Pro- sl
A
fessor in the Theology Department at Loyola University Chicago.
n The Voices of Muslim Women Theologians
a
Elif Medeni is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Education at the Uni- n
d
versity of Vienna. E
ISBN 978-3-631-62899-7
WISL 03-262899_Aslan_VH_A5HC Entwurf3.indd 1 05.06.13 11:01
3
3
N
This pioneering volume defines the contours of the emerging engagements of E
Muslim women scholars from around the world with the authoritative inter- I
D
pretive traditions of Islam, classical and contemporary. Muslima theology, en-
U
compassing a range of perspectives and arising from multiple social locations,
T
now claims a place alongside womanist and mujerista readings that interrogate S
scripture and other forms of religious discourse to empower women of faith to M
speak for themselves in the interests of gender justice. A
L
S
I
R
y E
og N
ol E
The I
W
a
m
i
l
s
u
M
) ·
s.
d
e
(
i
n
e
d
e
M
f
i
l
E
n /
e
s
n
a
m
r
e
H Ednan Aslan / Marcia Hermansen /
a
ci Elif Medeni (eds.)
r
a
Ednan Aslan is Chair of the Institute for Islamic Studies and Islamic Religious M
Education in the Centre for Teacher Education at the University of Vienna. n / Muslima Theology
a
Marcia Hermansen is Director of the Islamic World Studies program and Pro- sl
A
fessor in the Theology Department at Loyola University Chicago.
n The Voices of Muslim Women Theologians
a
Elif Medeni is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Education at the Uni- n
d
versity of Vienna. E
WISL 03-262899_Aslan_VH_A5HC Entwurf3.indd 1 05.06.13 11:01
Muslima Theology
WIENER ISLAMSTUDIEN
Herausgegeben von Ednan Aslan
Band 3
Ednan Aslan / Marcia Hermansen /
Elif Medeni (eds.)
Muslima Theology
The Voices of Muslim Women Theologians
Bibliographic Information published by the Deutsche
Nationalbibliothek
The Deutsche Nationalbibliothek lists this publication in the
Deutsche Nationalbibliografie; detailed bibliographic data is
available in the internet at http://dnb.d-nb.de.
Cover Design: © Olaf Gloeckler, Atelier Platen, Friedberg
Cover illustration: © Anadolu Agency
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Muslima theology : the voices of Muslim women theologians /
Ednan Aslan, Marcia Hermansen, Elif Medeni (eds.).
pages cm. — (Wiener Islamstudien ; Bd. 3)
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 978-3-631-62899-7
1. Women in Islam. 2. Islam—Doctrines. 3. Women theologi
ans—Islamic countries. I. Aslan, Ednan, 1959- II. Hermansen,
Marcia K., 1951- III. Medeni, Elif.
BP173.4.M935 2013
297.2082—dc23
2013021602
ISSN 2194-7988
ISBN 978-3-631-62899-7 (Print)
E-ISBN 978-3-653-03238-3 (E-Book)
DOI 10.3726/978-3-653-03238-3
© Peter Lang GmbH
Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Frankfurt am Main 2013
All rights reserved.
Peter Lang Edition is an Imprint of Peter Lang GmbH.
Peter Lang - Frankfurt am Main • Bern • Bruxelles • New York •
Oxford • Warszawa • Wien
All parts of this publication are protected by copyright. Any
utilisation outside the strict limits of the copyright law, without
the permission of the publisher, is forbidden and liable to
prosecution. This applies in particular to reproductions,
translations, microfilming, and storage and processing in
electronic retrieval systems.
www.peterlang.de
Table of Contents
9 Series editor’s foreword
11 I ntroduction:
The New Voices of Muslim Women Theologians
Marcia Hermansen
PART 1— MUSLIM WOMEN
THEOLOGIANS: HISTORICAL AND
AS
CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVES
35 E arly Community Politics and the Marginalization
of Women in Islamic Intellectual History
Ednan Aslan
45 Muslim Women as Religious Scholars:
A Historical Survey
Zainab Alwani
59 F eminist Readings of the Quran:
Social, Political, and Religious Implications
Ndeye Adújar
81 M uslim Feminist Theology in the United States
Aysha Hidayatullah
5
PART 2—THEOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
AND MUSLIM WOMEN
101 Women and Man’s “Fall”:
A Qur’anic Theological Perspective
Riffat Hassan
115 The Position of Woman in the Creation:
A Qur’anic Perspective
Hatice Arpaguş
133 Misogynistic Reports in the Hadith Literature
Hidayet Şefkatli Tuksal
155 Gender Justice and Gender
Jih d—Possibilities and Limits of Qur’anic
ā
Interpretation for Women’s Liberation
Muna Tatari
PART 3—MUSLIM WOMEN
AND ISLAMIC RELIGIOUS LAW
167 G endering Ritual: A Muslima’s Reading
of the Laws of Purity and Ritual Preclusion
Celene Ayat Lizzio
181 Ibn Taymiyya’s Feminism?
Imprisonment and the Divorce Fatwas
Carolyn Baugh
6
197 S exing the Prayer: The Politics of Ritual
and Feminist Activism in Indonesia
Etin Anwar
217 V iolence Against Women in Qur’an 4:34:
A Sacred Ordinance?
Rabha Al-Zeera
PART 4 — MUSLIMA
CONSTRUCTIVE THEOLOGY
231 From Sexual Difference to Religious Difference:
Toward a Muslima Theology of Religious Pluralism
Jerusha Tanner Lamptey
247 Resisting the Veil of Universalism:
Muslim Womanist Philosophy as a Lens for
Authentic Representations of African American
Muslim Women
Debra Majeed
267 In Search of al-Ins n:
ā
Sufism, Islamic Law, and Gender
Sa‘diyya Shaikh
309 B ibliography
335 Contributor Biographies
7
