Asma LamrabetWomen in the Qur'an
An Emancipatory Reading
Übersetzer: Francois-Cerrah, Myriam
Asma Lamrabet: Asma Lamrabet is currently working as a pathologist in Avicenna Hospital, Rabat, Morocco. She is also an award-winning author of many articles and books tackling Islam and women’s issues. Myriam Francois-Cerrah: Myriam Francois-Cerrah is a writer and broadcaster with a focus on current affairs, France and the Middle East. Her articles have been published in the Guardian, the Daily Telegraph, the New Statesman, Salon, The Independent, The New Internationalist, the Huffington Post and elsewhere.
Table of contents
1. Introducing the author
1. Foreword
2. A meeting with very different Muslim women...
3. Thanks
2. Introduction
4. Of which liberation do we speak?
5. In the beginning...
6. First part: when the Quran speaks about women
7. A story of all women
8. Bilq?s, Queen of Sheeba, a democratic queen
9. Sarah and Hagar, monotheistic emblems
10. Zulaykha or forbidden love
11. Umm M?s? and Assia, free women
12. The daughter of Shu'ayb and the meeting with M?s?
13. Maryam the favourite
14. Maryam, the link between Christians and Muslims
15. The birth of Maryam
16. Maryam's spiritual retreat
17. Revelation and annunciation
18. The birth of '?s? and all the struggles
19. Maryam and her son, a 'sign' for the worlds
3. Second part - When the Quran speaks to women
20. The language of the Quran, a masculine language?
21. When the Quran responds to female demands
22. The mub?hala or when the Quran encourages women to social participation
23. The muhajirat or the female political refugees
24. The mub?yi'?t or women's political engagement
25. Al-Muj?dala, when God listens to women's concerns
26. And the other verses?
27. Polygamy
28. Testimony
29. Inheritance
30. Hit them...?
4. Conclusion
31. Islam or the story of an aborted women's revolution
6. Bibliography
