Document Type

Book Chapter

Publication Date

2013

Publication Title

Muslima Theology: The Voices of Muslim Women Theologians

Abstract

This pioneering volume defines the contours of the emerging engagements of Muslim women scholars from around the world with the authoritative interpretive traditions of Islam, classical and contemporary. Muslima theology, here broadly defined to encompass a range of interpretive strategies and perspectives arising from multiple social locations, interrogates Islamic scripture and other forms of religious discourse to empower Muslim women of faith to speak for themselves in the interests of gender justice. Contributions provide an overview of the field at this juncture-ranging from pioneering Muslim scriptural feminism to detailed analyses of legal and mystical texts by a new international cohort of Muslim women academics and activists. Contemporary female Muslim "constructivist" approaches articulate concerns with diversity, including race and religious pluralism, paralleling developments in womanist and mujerista readings of religious texts.

Publisher Name

Peter Lang

Pages

11-34

Identifier

9783631628997

Comments

Author Posting © Peter Lang, 2013. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of Peter Lang for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Muslima Theology: The Voices of Muslim Women Theologians, 2013. https://doi.org/10.3726/978-3-653-03238-3

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