No Truth Without Beauty God, the Qur'an, and Women's Rights /

• Main Author: El-Ali, Leena (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2022.
• Series: Sustainable Development Goals Series,
• Subjects: Islam > Doctrines.; Feminism.; Feminist theory.; Ethnology > Middle East .; Culture.; Middle East > Politics and government.; Islam and culture.; Islam > History.; Islamic Theology.; Feminism and Feminist Theory.; Middle Eastern Culture.; Middle Eastern Politics.; Islamic Cultural Studies.; Islamic History.
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Summary

In this comprehensive open access book, written for readers from any or no religious background, Leena El-Ali does something remarkable. Never before has anyone taken on every last claim relating to Islam and women and countered it not just with Qur'anic evidence to the contrary, but with easy-to-use tools available to all. How can a woman's testimony be worth half of a man's? How can men divorce their wives unilaterally by uttering three words? And what's with the obsession with virgins in Paradise? Find the chapter on any of the seventeen topics in this book, and you will quickly learn a) where the myth came from and b) how to bust it. The methodology pursued is simple. First, the Qur'an is given priority over all other literary or "scriptural" sources. Second, the meaning of its verses in the original Arabic is highlighted, in contrast to English translations and/or widespread misunderstanding or misinterpretation.

Physical Description

XXXIII, 306 p. online resource.

ISBN

9783030835828

ISSN

2523-3092

DOI

10.1007/978-3-030-83582-8

Access

Open Access