Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction 3
5. The Qur’an and Its Interpretation
6. Islamic Feminist Tafsīr and Qur’anic Ethics 21
7. Tafsīr, Tradition, and Methodological Contestations 67
8. Reading the Qur’an through a Gendered, Egalitarian Lens 100
9. Figurative Representation: ḥadīth and Biographical Dictionaries
10. How Did Eve Get Married? Two Twelver Shi’i Ḥadīth Reports 125
11. Female Figures, Marginality, and Qur’anic Exegesis in Ibn al-Jawzī’s ṣifat al-Ṣafwa 151
12. Constructing the Image of the Model Muslim Woman 179
13. The Love of Prophet Muḥammad for the Jewish Woman Rayḥāna bint Zayd 209
14. Fiqh and Its Applications
15. Fiqh Rulings and Gendering the Public Space 259
16. Mysterious Legislation 288
17. Revisiting the Issue of Minor Marriages 314
18. Conclusion 365
19. Contributors 377
20. Index 381