Amina Wadud: 2 books
Qur'an and Woman:Rereading the Sacred Text from a Woman's Perspective
Rereading the Sacred Text from a Woman's Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 1999
Fourteen centuries of Islamic thought have produced a legacy of interpretive readings of the Qu'ran written almost entirely by men. Now, with Qu'ran and Woman, Amina Wadud provides a first interpretive reading by a woman, a reading which validates the female voice in the Qu'ran and brings it out of...
Inside The Gender Jihad
Women's Reform in Islam
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
In this engaging study, Dr Amina Wadud, an Afro-American Muslim herself, introduces the feminist movement in Islam and delves into its challenges, its textual foundations in the Qur'an and its achievements. Beginning with her own place in the effort for greater justice for women in Islam, Wadud goes...