Cover
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part One The Qur'an and Its Interpretation
1 Islamic Feminist Tafsīr and Qur'anic Ethics
2 Tafsīr, Tradition, and Methodological Contestations
3 Reading the Qurʼan through a Gendered, Egalitarian Lens
Part Two Figurative Representation: Hadīth and Biographical Dictionaries
4 How Did Eve Get Married? Two Twelver Shiʻi Hadīth Reports
5 Female Figures, Marginality, and Qurʼanic Exegesis in Ibn al-Jawzī's Sifat al-s afwa
6 Constructing the Image of the Model Muslim Woman

7 The Love of Prophet Muḥammad for the Jewish Woman Rayh·ana bint Zayd
Part Three Fiqh and Its Applications
8 Fiqh Rulings and Gendering the Public Space
9 Mysterious Legislation
10 Revisiting the Issue of Minor Marriages
Conclusion
Contributors
Index