Woman's Identity and the Qur'an

An original and uncompromising study of the Qur'anic foundations of women's identity and agency, this book is a bold call to Muslim women and men to reread and reinterpret the Qur'an, Islam's most authoritative source, and to discover within its revelations an inherent affirmation of gender equality.Nimat Hafez Barazangi asserts that Muslim women have been generally excluded from equal agency, fro...