Perplexity of a Muslim Woman (eBook)

Over Inheritance, Marriage, and Homosexuality

Olfa Youssef (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2017
164 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
9781498541701 (ISBN)

Infos

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 androcentric interpretations provided by male Muslim theologians and legal scholars from medieval times to the present, which today inform the body of the sharia law in many parts of the Muslim world.

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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.

Autor

Olfa Youssef is distinguished professor of Arabic, gender studies, and applied Islamology at the University of Manouba.Lamia Benyoussef (translator) is assistant professor in Arabic studies in the Department of Modern Foreign Languages at Birmingham-Southern College.

Inhalt

Translator’s PrefaceIntroductionChapter 1. Perplexity over InheritancePerplexity One: Inheritance: Between Divine Compulsion and Human ChoicePerplexity Two: Who Are They Who Inherit?Perplexity Three: Does the Male Get Twice the Share of the Female?Perplexity Four: Do Grandchildren and Grandparents Inherit?Perplexity Five: Agnatic Inheritance (Al Ta’seeb)Perplexity Six: DisinheritancePerplexity Seven: Al KalālaThat Which Lies After PerplexityChapter 2. Perplexity over MarriagePerplexity One: Is the Dowry a Marriage Requisite?Perplexity Two: Is the Dowry a Payment for a Woman’s Sex?Perplexity Three: The Obedience to the Husband in BedPerplexity Four: The Marriage of PleasurePerplexity Five: Anal IntercoursePerplexity Six: Child MarriagePerplexity Seven: Polyandry and PolygamyPerplexity Eight: The ‘IddahPerplexity Nine: Sex with One’s HandThat Which Lies After PerplexityChapter 3. Perplexity over HomosexualityPerplexity One: Bisexuality in the Qur’anPerplexity Two: Sihāq stories, or why did the Qur’an remain silent over sihāq?Perplexity Three: Sihāq in Qur’anic RulingsPerplexity Four: Liwāt StoriesPerplexity Five: Liwāt in Qur’anic RulingsPerplexity Six: Why Was Lot’s Wife Punished?Perplexity Seven: Punishment for Sihāq and LiwātPerplexity Eight: Are the Ghilmān of Heaven for Sexual Service?That Which Lies After PerplexityChapter 4. ConclusionAppendix A. Index of Qur’anic VersesAppendix B. Index of Hadiths

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.3.2017
• Übersetzer: Lamia Benyoussef
• Zusatzinfo: 2 Illustrations including: - 1 Halftones, Black & White including Black & White Photographs; - 1 Tables.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Schlagworte: Arabic Feminism • child marriage • gender equity in Islam • Gender Studies • Gender Studies in Islam • Homosexuality in Islam • inheritance in Islam • Islam and psychoanalysis • Islamic Jurisprudence • Islamic psychoanalytic feminism • Islamic Studies • LGBT rights in Islam • Liwat • Middle Eastern Studies • Sharia Law
• ISBN-13: 9781498541701 / 9781498541701