Qur'an and Woman

Fourteen centuries of Islamic thought have produced a legacy of interpretive readings of the Qu''ran written almost entirely by men. Now, with Qu''ran and Woman, Amina Wadud provides a first interpretive reading by a woman, a reading which validates the female voice in the Qu''ran and brings it out of the shadows. Muslim progressives have long argued that it is not the religion but patriarchal int...