Women and Gender in the Qur'an by Ibrahim Celene;

Author:Ibrahim, Celene;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Oxford University Press USA - OSO
Published: 2020-11-15T00:00:00+00:00

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Women Speakers and Interlocutors

From mothers-to-be and their angelic interlocutors to the gossiping accomplices of a viceroy’s wife, this chapter focuses on the speech of Qur’anic women. I highlight patterns and explore didactic and affective dimensions of this speech. When, where, how, and to whom do women and girls speak? How do girls and women assert political, religious, and other types of epistemic authority through their speech? What information does their speech imply about their characters, values, and outlooks? What virtues does this speech aim at instilling? How does the speech of pious women compare to the speech of pious men?

I also discuss women’s interactions with God and divine messengers. By way of comparison, Adam receives “words from his Lord” (Q 2:37), and Moses converses with God at length; the dialogue that transpires between God and Moses is, in one instance, nearly forty verses long (Q 20:11–48). The Prophet Muḥammad receives God’s Word as the Qur’an. What then is the nature of God’s communication with women? How do women speak with God’s messengers? I begin with the authoritative speech of a singular ant, and the namesake of Sūrat al-Naml (Q 27), the surah with the most verses containing female speech.1

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