For Ourselves – Women Reading the Qur'an |PDF Document||9.88
ميجابايت| Discussions covered interpretation and jurisprudence,
foundational myths, the process of Muslim jurisprudence relating
to women in the family and women in society, and action and
strategies. According to participants, the need for women to
review the process of interpretation and claim their right to
interpret arises out of the realities of women’s lives and the
myth that there is one way of being in the Muslim world. This is
a myth that is invariably accompanied by the threat of exclusion
for those who deviate from the discriminatory and imposed
interpretation promoted by obscurantism. The publication
includes an index and glossary of terms. Introduction to the
Reprint - 2004 Since the first printing of Women Living Under
Muslim Laws For Ourselves: Women Reading the Qur'an in 1997,
there has been a growing demand for this publication from women
working within Muslim contexts as well as from those beyond.
This reflects the determined survi