Sexual Ethics and Islam: Feminist Reflections on Qur'an, Hadith, and JurisprudenceSimon and Schuster, 2016 M01 7 - 320 pages Whether exploring the thorny issues of wives’ sexual duties, divorce, homosexuality, or sex outside marriage, discussions of sexual ethics and Islam often spark heated conflict rather than reasoned argument. In this updated and expanded edition of her ground-breaking work, feminist Muslim scholar Dr Kecia Ali asks how one can determine what makes sex lawful and ethical in the sight of God. Drawing on both revealed and interpretative Muslim texts, Ali critiques medieval and contemporary commentators alike to produce a balanced and comprehensive study of a subject both sensitive and urgent, making this an invaluable resource for students, scholars, and interested readers. |
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... form a global network and ... speak a common language,” one finds “a spectrum of views ranging from enlightened to obscurantist.”1 If one includes the much wider range of figures from academic, activist, and other backgrounds who ...
... form a global network and ... speak a common language,” one finds “a spectrum of views ranging from enlightened to obscurantist.”1 If one includes the much wider range of figures from academic, activist, and other backgrounds who ...
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... forms of violence, foreign and domestic. To focus only on sexual and sexualized violence is to ignore its imbrication with other forms of violent domination, by individuals, organizations, and states. Violence is made possible and ...
... forms of violence, foreign and domestic. To focus only on sexual and sexualized violence is to ignore its imbrication with other forms of violent domination, by individuals, organizations, and states. Violence is made possible and ...
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... forms of sanctioned relationships – little attention has been paid to themes such as consent, reciprocity, and coercion that are crucial to both an understanding of traditional Islamic sexual ethics and the possibilities for ...
... forms of sanctioned relationships – little attention has been paid to themes such as consent, reciprocity, and coercion that are crucial to both an understanding of traditional Islamic sexual ethics and the possibilities for ...
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... forms of religious authority. Although the 'ulama retain prominence in a variety of contexts, some of the most influential thinkers of the late nineteenth and especially twentieth centuries have come from outside this class, a tendency ...
... forms of religious authority. Although the 'ulama retain prominence in a variety of contexts, some of the most influential thinkers of the late nineteenth and especially twentieth centuries have come from outside this class, a tendency ...
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... forms of compensation, with the latter going to the wife herself. On this view, dower payment to the bride would not be an Islamic innovation but rather an instance of the way that “Islam selectively sanctioned” certain Arabian tribal ...
... forms of compensation, with the latter going to the wife herself. On this view, dower payment to the bride would not be an Islamic innovation but rather an instance of the way that “Islam selectively sanctioned” certain Arabian tribal ...
Contents
Divorce in Islamic Ethics | |
Slave Concubinage in Muslim Texts and Discourses | |
Illicit Sex in Islamic Jurisprudence | |
SameSex Intimacy in Muslim Thought | |
Female Circumcision in Islamic Sources | |
Female Bodies and Male Agency in the Quran | |
The Prophet Muhammad his Beloved Aishah and Modern Muslim Sensibilities | |
Afterword to the 2016 edition | |
Bibliography | |
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