Through extraordinary meditations, affirmations, holistic healing plant-based medicine, KMT temple teachings, and The Rites of Passage guidance, Queen Afua teaches us how to love and rejoice in our bodies by spiritualizing the words we speak, the foods we eat, the relationships we attract, the spaces we live and work in, and the transcendent woman spirit we manifest. The Qu'ran does not prescribe one timeless and unchanging social structure for men and women, Wadud argues lucidly, affirming that the Qu'ran holds greater possibilities for guiding human society to a more fulfilling and productive mutual collaboration between men and women than as yet attained by Muslims or non-Muslims.The twentieth anniversary edition of a transformative blueprint for ancestral healing-featuring new material and gateways, from the renowned herbalist, natural health expert, and healer of women's bodies and souls 'This book was one of the first that helped me start practices as a young woman that focused on my body and spirit as one.'-Jada Pinkett Smith Wadud's reading of the Qu'ran confirms womens equality and constitutes legitimate grounds for contesting the unequal treatment that women have experienced historically and continue to experience legally in Muslim communities.

What her analysis clarifies is the lack of gender bias, precedence, or prejudice in the essential language of the Qur'an.ĭespite much Qu'ranic evidence about the significance of women, gender reform in Muslim society has been stubbornly resisted. Wadud breaks down specific texts and key words which have been used to limit women's public and private role, even to justify violence toward Muslim women, revealing that their original meaning and context defy such interpretations. Qu'ran and Woman contributes a gender inclusive reading to one of the most fundamental disciplines in Islamic thought, Qu'ranic exegesis. For many, the way to reform is the reexamination and reinterpretation of religious texts. Muslim progressives have long argued that it is not the religion but patriarchal interpretation and implementation of the Qu'ran that have kept women oppressed.

Now, with Qu'ran and Woman, Amina Wadud provides a first interpretive reading by a woman, a reading which validates the female voice in the Qu'ran and brings it out of the shadows. Oxford Research Encyclopedias: Global Public Healthįourteen centuries of Islamic thought have produced a legacy of interpretive readings of the Qu'ran written almost entirely by men.The European Society of Cardiology Series.Oxford Commentaries on International Law.

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