A fourteen centuries old consensus by Islamic religious authorities
has upheld the belief that God has granted husbands the right to
beat their wives. Previously, the only element up for debate was
the degree of severity, the instrument of the beating, and the
limit to the damage allowed. This startling assertion, which shocks
human sensibilities, is confirmed by hundreds of Qur'anic
commentaries and works of Islamic jurisprudence authored over the
course of the past millennia and a half. Despite the lies of
propagandists and the ignorance of apologists, who claim that
"Islam prohibits domestic violence," the fact of the matter is that
the Islamic Tradition and Law allow husbands to inflict corporal
punishment on their wives. In fact, it was only in the late
twentieth and early twenty-first centuries that a small number of
translators and scholars started to insist upon alternate
interpretations. In this pivotal, courageous, and timely analysis,
which works diligently and minutely to separate truth from
falsehood, right from wrong, the moral from the immoral, and the
ethical from the unethical, Dr. John Andrew Morrow provides an
exhaustive study of the second part of the Quranic text, 4:34, the
Wife Beating Verse. Like Titan, who bears the weight of the heavens
upon his shoulders, Morrow takes on the entire corpora of Islamic
Tradition. With scientific precision, he interprets the verse by
the verse, itself, the verse by related verses, the verse in the
light of the Qur'an, the verse in light of prophetic traditions
that permit domestic violence, the verse in light of other
traditions that expressly prohibit violence against women, the
verse in its historical context, the verse in light of reformist
reinterpretations, the verse in light of the spirit of Islam, the
verse from a Sufi perspective, and the verse in light of Qur'anic
variants. Along the way, the author delicately and defiantly
dispels misogynistic misinterpretations of the Word of God while
slashing and burning the sexist sayings that were attributed to the
Prophet Muhammad. In so doing, he may well save Islam from those
traditionalists and misogynists who claim to speak in God's name.
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