1st Edition
Recovering the Female Voice in Islamic Scripture Women and Silence
Introduction: Women’s Voice and the Public Space
1 Theology of Religions and Interfeminist Dialogue
2 Deconstructing the Qur`an’s Paradigmatic Women
3 Towards a Qur`anic Hermeneutic for Gendered Reading: Theological Approaches
4 Towards a Qur`anic Hermeneutic for Gendered Reading: Literary Approaches
5 Sign as Qur`anic Hermeneutic
6 From Signs, to Titles, to Women
7 Prophetic Disagreement in the Qur`an
8 Narratological Analysis of the Mujādilah
9 The Mujādilah as Trope for Interfeminist Dialogue
Conclusion
Biography
Georgina L. Jardim read a PhD at the University of Gloucestershire, UK on obscure female characters in the Qur'an, bringing these conversations about community formation and the roles of women to bear on her study of the Qur'an as a Christian woman. She has taught in tertiary institutions in South Africa, and was a lecturer in Semitic languages at a Theological Seminary of the North West University in South Africa. She has also taught in the United Kingdom in both secondary and tertiary education and is currently pursuing ways to engage in, and further, cross-cultural dialogue within the Abrahamic religions.
"Jardim’s book is a valuable contribution to the tradition of giving women a voice in religious contexts. As her analysis is based on a non-confessional approach, it provides a valuable perspective, both outsider and insider, by using prominent female representatives from the Islamic tradition. Her mastery of the Arabic language, the Islamic source material and its Christian and Jewish counterparts, and current feminist writing gives her a solid foundation for her argumentation. Jardim’s work is a good introduction to Islamic feminist thought as well as to Islamic source material in general."
- Anne Sofie Roald, Malmö University, Sweden in Islam and Christian–Muslim Relations, 2016
