1st Edition
Islam and Gender Major Issues and Debates
Note on transliteration
Introduction
Chapter one: Gender, Religion and Feminisms
Chapter two: Masculinity and Femininity in the Premodern Islamic Interpretative Tradition: A Conceptual Overview
Chapter three: The Logic of Patriarchal Honour and Its Manifestations in Muslim Contexts:
Veiling, Female Genital Cutting and Honor based Violence
Chapter four: Interpretations of Qur’an and Sunnah (Manhaj) and Gender
Chapter five: Gender and Hadith
Chapter six: Marriage (Qiwama, Wilaya and Faddala)
Chapter seven: Divorce (nushuz, ta’a, daraba)
Chapter eight: Inheritance and Polygamy
Chapter nine: Adultery and Sexual Violence
Chapter ten: Gender and Sexual Diversity
Chapter eleven: Lived Religiosities: Contesting Authoritative Discourses and Practices
Chapter twelve: Muslim Female Religious Agency and Gender Justice in Islam
Chapter thirteen: Conclusion
Index
Biography
Adis Duderija is Senior Lecturer in Islam and Society in the School of Humanities, Languages and Social Science and Senior Fellow at the Centre for Interfaith and Intercultural Dialogue at Griffith University, Australia.
Alina Isac Alak is Associate Lecturer and Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Bucharest, Romania.
Kristin Hissong is Assistant Professor of Middle East North Africa Studies with the Air War College's Culture and Language Center in Montgomery, Alabama, USA.
