Feminist Fatwas - By Rafia Zakaria
Feminist Fatwas traces how Muslim feminists are resisting misogynistic interpretations of the Quran (like the verse male clerics have used to condone wife-beating).
For centuries, the translators and interpreters of the Holy Quran have been men. This is changing now as more and more Muslim feminists cast their eye on the patriarchal contexts of these interpretations. Feminist Fatwas tells the story of Verse 34 in Chapter 4 which has been interpreted by male clerics as condoning a husband beating his wife. This essay traces the groundbreaking work of knocking down this misogynist Quranic interpretations. The story of how Muslim feminists are doing this work is a chronicle of the slow and quiet feminist revolution taking place within Islam as women take on significant and powerful roles.
Rafia Zakaria is a Pakistani-American attorney, feminist, journalist, and author. She has written for The Nation, Guardian Books, The New Republic, The Baffler, Boston Review, and Al Jazeera. In 2021, she published Against White Feminism, in which she critiques the emphasis that conventional feminist thought places on the experiences of white women while excluding women of color
Everyday Analysis produces a series of pamphlets dealing with contemporay social and political issues. The project is interested in Marxist and Psychoanalytic approaches to politics, culture and economics which take a universalist perspective an refuse to align with prevailing identiarian discourses. General Editions now publishes the New Zealand editions, but visit everydayanalysis.co.uk for more information.
36pp
32g, 16.6x11.4x0.35cm
This New Zealand edition published General Editions in association with everyday anyalysis 2024
Feminist Fatwas traces how Muslim feminists are resisting misogynistic interpretations of the Quran (like the verse male clerics have used to condone wife-beating).
For centuries, the translators and interpreters of the Holy Quran have been men. This is changing now as more and more Muslim feminists cast their eye on the patriarchal contexts of these interpretations. Feminist Fatwas tells the story of Verse 34 in Chapter 4 which has been interpreted by male clerics as condoning a husband beating his wife. This essay traces the groundbreaking work of knocking down this misogynist Quranic interpretations. The story of how Muslim feminists are doing this work is a chronicle of the slow and quiet feminist revolution taking place within Islam as women take on significant and powerful roles.
Rafia Zakaria is a Pakistani-American attorney, feminist, journalist, and author. She has written for The Nation, Guardian Books, The New Republic, The Baffler, Boston Review, and Al Jazeera. In 2021, she published Against White Feminism, in which she critiques the emphasis that conventional feminist thought places on the experiences of white women while excluding women of color
Everyday Analysis produces a series of pamphlets dealing with contemporay social and political issues. The project is interested in Marxist and Psychoanalytic approaches to politics, culture and economics which take a universalist perspective an refuse to align with prevailing identiarian discourses. General Editions now publishes the New Zealand editions, but visit everydayanalysis.co.uk for more information.
36pp
32g, 16.6x11.4x0.35cm
This New Zealand edition published General Editions in association with everyday anyalysis 2024
Language: English
ISBN: 978-1-0670563-5-3
NB. Use ‘Domestic Letter Post’ or ‘NZ POST Courier A5 ECO’.
For international orders visit everydayanalysis.co.uk
ISBN: 978-1-0670563-5-3
NB. Use ‘Domestic Letter Post’ or ‘NZ POST Courier A5 ECO’.
For international orders visit everydayanalysis.co.uk
