This volume challenges a long history of normalizing patriarchal
approaches to the Qur’an and calls for a questioning of the
interpretive credibility of many inherited Qur’anic commentaries.
The author presents a fresh reading of the sacred text and Islamic
teaching traditions as the rediscovery of a lost humanitarian and
gender-egalitarian textual richness that has been poorly and
loosely handled for centuries. The book stresses the importance of
reviewing the interpretive linguistic choices that jurists and
exegetes over the last fourteen centuries have adopted to
semantically reshape the Qur’anic text. The vigilant reading the
author provides of carefully chosen texts and commentaries suggests
that many interpretive approaches to the Qur’an are dominated by
sociopolitical factors alien to the intrinsic values of the text
itself. More importantly, inconsistencies across putatively sound
books of tafsīr indicate that the Qur’anic text often suffers
from historical and systematic drainage of its humanitarianism,
gender-egalitarianism, and religious pluralism.
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