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 蚕耻谤鈥檃苍Muslims believe that the Holy 蚕耻谤鈥檃苍 contains divine revelations to the Prophet Muhammed received in Mecca and Medina over a period of 23 years in the early 7th century CE. More and traditional 蚕耻谤鈥檃苍ic commentaries. It comprises analysis of the female subject in the 蚕耻谤鈥檃苍, annotated translations of 蚕耻谤鈥檃苍ic 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 蚕耻谤鈥檃苍ic commentaries. A unique prolegomenon then follows key 蚕耻谤鈥檃苍ic terms in a chronological sequence, showing how the 蚕耻谤鈥檃苍鈥檚 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 蚕耻谤鈥檃苍ic 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 蚕耻谤鈥檃苍ic norms of modesty (Q. 24:31). While highlighting variation, continuity, and plurality in the genre of 蚕耻谤鈥檃苍ic commentaries, Volume II goes beyond medieval interpretive paradigms to include perspectives marginalised by that tradition, such as the voices of women themselves.
Foreword by Dr Omar Al铆-de-Unzaga
Acknowledgements
Note on Translation and Conventions
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Prolegomenon: The Qur示膩nic lexicon on women
The Commentators and their Commentaries
Map of Centres of Learning in the Islamic World
1. Human creation (Q. 4:1)
Muq膩til; H奴d; Qumm墨; 峁琣bar墨; Q膩岣嵞 al-Nu士m膩n; Qushayr墨; Mu示ayyad f墨鈥檒-D墨n al-Sh墨r膩z墨; Zamakhshar墨; 峁琣bris墨; R膩z墨; Qur峁璾b墨; K膩sh膩n墨; Ibn Kath墨r; Mu岣in al-Fay岣 al-K膩sh膩n墨; Bur奴saw墨; 士Abduh and Ri岣嵞; Fa岣峫 All膩h; Fariba Alasvand; Mehdi Mehrizi; Nasser Ghorbannia; Sa’diyya Shaikh; amina wadud
2. Mary (Q. 3:35鈥6)
Muq膩til; H奴d; Qumm墨; 峁琣bar墨; Q膩岣嵞 al-Nu士m膩n; Qushayr墨; Zamakhshar墨; 峁琣bris墨; R膩z墨; Qur峁璾b墨; K膩sh膩n墨; Ibn Kath墨r; Mu岣in al-Fay岣 al-K膩sh膩n墨; Bur奴saw墨; 士Abduh and Ri岣嵞; Fa岣峫 All膩h
3. Marital Roles (Q. 4:34)
Muq膩til; H奴d; Qumm墨; 峁琣bar墨; Qushayr墨; Zamakhshar墨; 峁琣bris墨; R膩z墨; Qur峁璾b墨; Ibn Kath墨r; Mu岣in al-Fay岣 al-K膩sh膩n墨; Bur奴saw墨; 士Abduh and Ri岣嵞; Fa岣峫 All膩h; Grand AyatollahFrom Arabic (膩yat Ull膩h), lit. Sign of God; a title used by the Imami Twelver Shi鈥榠s. The rank of Ayatollah is believed to have been established in the Safawid period… Saanei; Fariba Alasvand; Mehdi Mehrizi; Sa’diyya Shaikh; amina wadud
4. The Veil (Q. 24:31)
Muq膩til; H奴d; Qumm墨; 峁琣bar墨; Q膩岣嵞 al-Nu士m膩n; Qushayr墨; Zamakhshar墨; 峁琣bris墨; R膩z墨; Qur峁璾b墨; Ibn Kath墨r; Mu岣in al-Fay岣 al-K膩sh膩n墨; Bur奴saw墨; Fa岣峫 All膩h; Sa’diyya Shaikh; amina wadud
5. Women鈥檚 Testimony (Q. 2:282)
Muq膩til; H奴d; Qumm墨; 峁琣bar墨; Q膩岣嵞 al-Nu士m膩n; Zamakhshar墨; 峁琣bris墨; R膩z墨; Qur峁璾b墨; Ibn Kath墨r; Mu岣in al-Fay岣 al-K膩sh膩n墨; Bur奴saw墨; 士Abduh and Ri岣嵞; Fa岣峫 All膩h; Fariba Alasvand; Y奴suf Saanei; Mehdi Mehrizi; Nasser Ghorbannia
Prosopographical appendix
Bibliography
Index of Qur示膩nic Citations
Index
鈥楾he impressive Anthology of 蚕耻谤鈥檃苍ic Commentaries, Volume II stands out as a piece of solid scholarship, diligent editing and breadth of coverage … [Anthology of Qur’anic Commentaries, Volume II] will be read with much profit by all those interested in the study of gender issues in Islam.鈥
鈥 Abdur Raheem Kidwai, The Muslim World Book Review
Karen Bauer is a Senior Research Associate at the Institute of Ismaili Studies, London. She is the author of Gender Hierarchy in the Qur示膩n: Medieval Interpretations, Modern Responses (Cambridge, 2015) and editor of Aims, Methods and Contexts of 蚕耻谤鈥檃苍ic Exegesis (2nd/8th鈥9th/15th C.) (Oxford, 2013). She has also published on the history of 蚕耻谤鈥檃苍ic interpretation, on women鈥檚 status as judges and witnesses in Islamic law, and on the history of emotions in Islam.
Feras Hamza is Head of the School of the Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Wollongong in Dubai, UAE, and is also a Research Fellow in the 蚕耻谤鈥檃苍ic Studies Unit at the Institute of Ismaili Studies, London. He co-edited (with Sajjad Rizvi and Farhana Mayer) An Anthology of 蚕耻谤鈥檃苍ic Commentaries, Volume I: On the Nature of the Divine (Oxford, 2008) and is the general series editor for the multi-volume Anthology of 蚕耻谤鈥檃苍ic Commentaries. He has authored several historical articles on the early Muslim community, as well as articles on the epistemological and methodological approaches in 蚕耻谤鈥檃苍ic and 迟补蹿蝉墨谤 studies. He is currently working on a hermeneutics-based project entitled Time and Narrative in the 蚕耻谤鈥檃苍.