Qur'an of the Oppressed (Oxford Theology and Religion Monographs) by Shadaab Rahemtulla

Author:Shadaab Rahemtulla [Rahemtulla, Shadaab]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780192516503
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2017-02-09T08:00:00+00:00

Simply put: just conduct is equally important in the public and private spheres.269 In order to be truly committed to justice, men need to value housework, to appreciate the labour that women have historically undertaken inside the home. Men need to start seeing this work as being as valuable in the eyes of God as the work that is done outside the home—recalling Wadud’s description of both as ‘work for Allah’—and then to play an even share in that labour. The Qur’an, she points out, never describes domestic activities like child rearing as being an essential aspect of womanhood.270 There is no scriptural mandate, then, for a gendered division of labour across public and private spaces, leaving the distribution of these tasks open to the possibilities of new contexts. Such an egalitarian arrangement within the family exemplifies what Wadud calls the principle of reciprocity (mu‘awadha). For her, a reciprocal moral culture is the solution to patriarchy and its base assumption of a hierarchal relationship of domination between women and men, reconfiguring this relationship into one of ‘partnership’,271 marked by equality, interdependence, and mutual responsibility.

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