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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... discussions. It focused on the theoretical and the textual, with reference to but largely abstracted from the concrete material circumstances of Muslim lives. This edition still says relatively little about lived experience, but attends ...
... discussions. It focused on the theoretical and the textual, with reference to but largely abstracted from the concrete material circumstances of Muslim lives. This edition still says relatively little about lived experience, but attends ...
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... discussing recent developments. The topics remain essentially the same, though I devote more attention to specifically American contexts and thinkers; I also discuss polygyny, mostly ignored in the first edition, in the Coda to Chapter ...
... discussing recent developments. The topics remain essentially the same, though I devote more attention to specifically American contexts and thinkers; I also discuss polygyny, mostly ignored in the first edition, in the Coda to Chapter ...
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... discussions of issues relevant to women's lives as well as our understanding of the layered and intertwined nature of dominant discourses. As a precursor to my own foray into these treacherous waters, I want to highlight the importance ...
... discussions of issues relevant to women's lives as well as our understanding of the layered and intertwined nature of dominant discourses. As a precursor to my own foray into these treacherous waters, I want to highlight the importance ...
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... discussions of women's place, position, or status – in English and other Western languages, especially – are a reaction to these Western critiques. In quite a number of works, selective quotations from nineteenth-and twentieth-century ...
... discussions of women's place, position, or status – in English and other Western languages, especially – are a reaction to these Western critiques. In quite a number of works, selective quotations from nineteenth-and twentieth-century ...
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... discuss “the Muslim woman” or “sex in Islam” must be suspect; variables of class, geography, and time period, not to ... discussion here, empirical evidence concerning practice is difficult to obtain. But there is a relationship between ...
... discuss “the Muslim woman” or “sex in Islam” must be suspect; variables of class, geography, and time period, not to ... discussion here, empirical evidence concerning practice is difficult to obtain. But there is a relationship between ...
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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