Islamic Feminism Scholars and Their Interpretive Approaches

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2026
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Abstract
Abstract Since the early 1990s, Muslim women scholars from various countries have been undertaking close textual analysis of the Qurʾān and the Islamic interpretive tradition. The overall aims of these scholars are to: (1) study and make explicit the Quranic ethical worldview and how it informs the question of Muslim gender norms; and (2) critically engage with exegetical interpretations and juristic rulings that construct men as inherently superior and women as inferior, and which have been used to legitimate inequality between women and men in the family realm and public sphere. This scholarship, which has been called Islamic feminism, also has an integral activist dimension, as its producers seek to inform and facilitate advocacy efforts toward the goal of Islamically grounded gender-sensitive reforms in contemporary Muslim family laws. This chapter reviews and reflects on the interpretive approaches of selected Islamic feminist scholars, as well as selected debates on Islamic feminism.
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Authors Mulki Al-Sharmani
Journal Oxford University Press eBooks
Year 2026
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10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197532805.013.20
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https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197532805.013.20
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