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The Perplexity of a Muslim Woman - Over Inheritance, Marriage, and Homosexuality (Paperback)
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The Perplexity of a Muslim Woman - Over Inheritance, Marriage, and Homosexuality (Paperback)
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Using the methodology of modern scholars in the fields of Arabic
lexicography, linguistics, and psychoanalysis, Tunisian feminist
scholar Olfa Youssef investigates the rulings about inheritance,
marriage, and homosexuality in the Qur'anic text itself and
compares them with the interpretations provided by male Muslim
theologians and legal scholars from medieval times to the present.
In this book, she makes five central arguments: (1) There is a
discrepancy between the layered signification in the Qur'anic text
itself and the sutured explanations by religious scholars which
have been enacted into law in many Muslim countries today; (2) the
plurality of meanings is the quintessential essence of the Qur'an
as evidenced in the absence of any sura over which there was
unanimous agreement among Muslim scholars; (3) when male privilege
was at stake, male legal scholars, to protect their own interests,
ignored the divine text and based their rulings on human consensus;
(4) Muslim medieval views on gender and homosexuality were more
tolerant than contemporary ones; and finally (5), preferring
indetermination and perplexity over the finality and certainties
found in the judgements of male theologians, Youssef argues that
only God knows the Qur'an's true meaning. Her job as a Muslim
female scholar is only to raise questions over those human
interpretations that many Muslim societies mistake for divine will.
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