Believing Women in Islam: Unreading Patriarchal Interpretations of the Qur'An by Asma Barlas

Author:Asma Barlas
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Religion, Islam, General
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2019-01-15T01:53:11+00:00

Thus, religious, racial, and linguistic differences are all divinely ordained and are “Signs For those who know” (30:22 [Ali, 1056]). By representing differences as expressions of God’s will, the Qurʾān not only demystifies and normalizes them but also establishes the inappropriateness of trying to erase or obliterate them—for instance, through assimilation or physical destruction. If something exists by divine will, then believers must accept its legitimacy and moral purposiveness as well, even when it comes to disbelief. This seems clear from how the Prophet is counseled to respond to those who refuse his message:

Say: o ye

That reject Faith!

I worship not that

Which ye worship.

And I will not worship

That which ye have been

Wont to worship.

Nor will ye worship

That which I worship.

To you be your Way,

And to me mine.

The Qurʾān (109 [Ali, 1800])

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