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Building on the success of Anthology, Volume I: On the Nature of the Divine, this second volume in the series focuses on a critical and contentious theme: Women in the Qur鈥檃n and traditional Qur鈥檃nic commentaries. It comprises analysis of the female subject in the Qur鈥檃n, annotated translations of Qur鈥檃nic commentaries spanning twelve centuries, interviews of contemporary Muslim scholars and extensive introductory materials, which frame the work throughout and render these technically complex materials accessible to the reader. On Women begins with a critical introduction to the study of women and gender in the genre of Qur鈥檃nic commentaries. A unique prolegomenon then follows key Qur鈥檃nic terms in a chronological sequence, showing how the Qur鈥檃n鈥檚 world view on women developed from the earliest Meccan revelations, when women were addressed only implicitly as a part of households or in the course of anti-pagan polemic, to the period of the final revelations in Medina, when women were addressed directly as pious and social subjects. The remainder of the volume translates, critically annotates, and analyses interpretations of six select Qur鈥檃nic verses on women. These verses, chosen because of their relevance to women鈥檚 lived experience, speak of the creation of humankind beginning with a single soul (Q. 4:1); the exemplary figure of Mary, the mother of Jesus (Q. 3:35鈥6); women鈥檚 status in marriage (Q. 4:34); women鈥檚 legal testimony and hence legal capacity (Q. 2:282); and 鈥榲eiling鈥 as it relates to Qur鈥檃nic norms of modesty (Q. 24:31). While highlighting variation, continuity, and plurality in the genre of Qur鈥檃nic commentaries, Volume II goes beyond medieval interpretive paradigms to include perspectives marginalised by that tradition, such as the voices of women themselves.