Is women’s inequality supported by the Qur’an? Do men have the
exclusive right to interpret Islam’s holy scripture? In her
best-selling book Believing Women in Islam: Unreading Patriarchal
Interpretations of the Qur’an, Asma Barlas argues that, far from
supporting male privilege, the Qur’an actually encourages the
full equality of women and men. She explains why a handful of
verses have been interpreted to favor men and shows how these same
verses can be read in an egalitarian way that is fully supported by
the text itself and compatible with the Qur’an’s message that
it is complete and self-consistent. A Brief Introduction presents
the arguments of Believing Women in a simplified way that will be
accessible and inviting to general readers and undergraduate
students. The authors focus primarily on the Qur’an’s teachings
about women and patriarchy. They show how traditional teachings
about women’s inferiority are not supported by the Qur’an but
were products of patriarchal societies that used it to justify
their existing religious and social structures. The authors’ hope
is that by understanding how patriarchal traditionalists have come
to exercise so much authority in today’s Islam, as well as by
rereading some of the Qur’an’s most controversial verses,
adherents of the faith will learn to question patriarchal dogma and
see that an egalitarian reading of the Qur’an is equally possible
and, for myriad reasons, more plausible.
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