TY - BOOK ID - 30989904 TI - Gender hierarchy in the Qurʼān PY - 2015 SN - 9781107613935 1107613930 9781107041523 110704152X 9781139649759 1316255190 131623438X 1316236277 1316249514 1316251403 1316253295 1316247619 1139649752 1316245721 9781316247617 9781316249512 9781316236277 9781316234389 9781316236277 9781316255193 PB - New York, NY DB - UniCat KW - 297.181 KW - 297.181 Islam: canonieke boeken Koran KW - Islam: canonieke boeken Koran KW - Islam: canonieke boeken; Koran KW - 297.181 Islam: canonieke boeken; Koran KW - Sex role KW - Religious aspects KW - Islam KW - Qur'an KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc. KW - History KW - Islam. KW - Qurʼan KW - History. KW - Al-Coran KW - Al-Qur'an KW - Alcorà KW - Alcoran KW - Alcorano KW - Alcoranus KW - Alcorão KW - Alkoran KW - Coran KW - Curān KW - Gulan jing KW - Karan KW - Koran KW - Koranen KW - Korani KW - Koranio KW - Korano KW - Ku-lan ching KW - Ḳurʼān KW - Kurāna KW - Kurani KW - Kuru'an KW - Qorān KW - Quräan KW - Qurʼān al-karīm KW - Qurʺon KW - Xuraan KW - Κοράνιο KW - Каран KW - Коран KW - קוראן KW - قرآن KW - Sex role - Religious aspects - Islam UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:30989904 AB - This book explores how medieval and modern Muslim religious scholars ('ulamā') interpret gender roles in Qur'ānic verses on legal testimony, marriage, and human creation. Citing these verses, medieval scholars developed increasingly complex laws and interpretations upholding a male-dominated gender hierarchy; aspects of their interpretations influence religious norms and state laws in Muslim-majority countries today, yet other aspects have been discarded entirely. Karen Bauer traces the evolution of their interpretations, showing how they have been adopted, adapted, rejected, or replaced over time, by comparing the Qur'ān with a wide range of Qur'ānic commentaries and interviews with prominent religious scholars from Iran and Syria. At times, tradition is modified in unexpected ways: learned women argue against gender equality, or Grand Ayatollahs reject sayings of the Prophet, citing science instead. This innovative and engaging study highlights the effects of social and intellectual contexts on the formation of tradition, and on modern responses to it. ER -