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Bauer, Karen A.

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Room for interpretation: Qur'anic exegesis and gender.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Room for interpretation: Qur'anic exegesis and gender./
Author:	Bauer, Karen A.
Description:	232 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Michael Cook.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International68-12A.
Subject:	Gender Studies. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3295289
ISBN:	9780549397311

Room for interpretation: Qur'anic exegesis and gender.
Bauer, Karen A.

Room for interpretation: Qur'anic exegesis and gender. - 232 p.

Adviser: Michael Cook.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Princeton University, 2008.

The aim of my research is to understand how canon, tradition, societal norms, and circumstance influence Qur'anic interpretation. I do this by examining clerical exegeses (tafsir, pl. tafasir) of three key verses in the Qur'an which describe the nature of women and the relationship between the sexes. In my work, I question scholarly and popular assumptions about how canon and other authoritative sources influence interpretation. It is common to view the Qur'an, earliest exegeses, and prophetic sayings (h&dotbelow;adiths) as having determined pre-modern interpretation. This view assumes that certain pre-modern interpretations are inevitable, given the words of the Qur'an, prophetic h&dotbelow;adiths, and words of the Companions of the Prophet. In this dissertation, I show how exegetes work with the text of h&dotbelow;adiths, but also pick and choose between h&dotbelow;adiths and other authoritative sources; commentaries are shaped by their own concerns, opinions, schools of law, teachers, and by common understandings in their day. I argue that, while all of these factors were important components of exegesis, the exegetes' individual judgment and the mores of their time carried a greater weight in determining exegesis than did the elements commonly considered to be its sources.

ISBN: 9780549397311Subjects--Topical Terms:

898693
Gender Studies.

Room for interpretation: Qur'anic exegesis and gender.
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520 $a The aim of my research is to understand how canon, tradition, societal norms, and circumstance influence Qur'anic interpretation. I do this by examining clerical exegeses (tafsir, pl. tafasir) of three key verses in the Qur'an which describe the nature of women and the relationship between the sexes. In my work, I question scholarly and popular assumptions about how canon and other authoritative sources influence interpretation. It is common to view the Qur'an, earliest exegeses, and prophetic sayings (h&dotbelow;adiths) as having determined pre-modern interpretation. This view assumes that certain pre-modern interpretations are inevitable, given the words of the Qur'an, prophetic h&dotbelow;adiths, and words of the Companions of the Prophet. In this dissertation, I show how exegetes work with the text of h&dotbelow;adiths, but also pick and choose between h&dotbelow;adiths and other authoritative sources; commentaries are shaped by their own concerns, opinions, schools of law, teachers, and by common understandings in their day. I argue that, while all of these factors were important components of exegesis, the exegetes' individual judgment and the mores of their time carried a greater weight in determining exegesis than did the elements commonly considered to be its sources.
520 $a Exegetes' interpretations of women's status and roles are the subject matter of the dissertation: gender provides the lens through which I study the larger question of the sources of exegesis and its development. For the devout, the interpretation of these verses has a direct effect on daily life. Different understandings of how to behave towards a recalcitrant wife, for instance, could have serious implications for the woman in question. The venture of interpretation is an intellectual pursuit; yet exegetes seek to influence practice: they prescribe behaviors regulating Muslims' daily lives and households, as well as explaining why such prescriptions make sense. Thus, although exegetes rarely comment on actual practice, these exegeses help the present-day reader to understand the mores of the scholars who produced them.
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