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Stories about gendered social relations permeate the Quran, and nearly three hundred verses involve specific women or girls. The Quran features these figures in accounts of human origins, in stories of the founding and destruction of nations, in narratives of conquest, in episodes of romantic attraction, and in incidents of family devotion and strife. Overall, stories involving women and girls weave together theology and ethics to reinforce central Quranic ideas regarding submission to God and moral accountability. Celene Ibrahim explores the complex cast of female figures in the Quran, probing themes related to biological sex, female sexuality, female speech, and women in sacred history. Ibrahim considers major and minor figures referenced in the Quran, including those who appear in narratives of sacred history, in parables, in descriptions of the eternal abode, and in verses that allude to events contemporaneous with the advent of the Quran in Arabia. Ibrahim finds that the Quran regularly celebrates the aptitudes of women in the realms of spirituality and piety, in political maneuvering, and in safeguarding their own wellbeing; yet, women figures also occasionally falter and use their agency toward nefarious ends. Women and Gender in the Quran outlines how women and girls - old, young, barren, fertile, chaste, profligate, reproachable, and saintly -enter Quranic sacred history and advance the Qurans overarching didactic aims.About author(s):Celene Ibrahim is a faculty member in the Department of Religious Studies and Philosophy at Groton School. She has written extensively on themes related to women and gender in Muslim intellectual history and is a public voice on issues of religious pluralism. Ibrahim holds a PhD in Arabic and Islamic civilizations from Brandeis University, a masters of divinity from Harvard University, and a bachelors degree with highest honors from Princeton University
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Brand: Oxford University Press, Usa
