"Believing Women" in Islam: Unreading Patriarchal Interpretations of the Qur'an Paperback – June 15, 2002

As a Muslim and a feminist I've sometims been at odds reconciling my feminist philosophy with my religious faith and this book made me able to reclaim my faith from misogynistic sheikhs who would have me and other Muslims think otherwise.

Excellent analysis and interpretation of verses of the holy Qur'an.

The writer calls for distortion of the Holy Quran

I'm a devout, practicing, Muslim woman and I love this book.

Great book with strong feminist interpretation of the Qu'ran.

This book changed my life.

Among several other writings by Muslim women about the religion and its sacred sources, this one also is written by someone who, to my knowledge, does not have training in Arabic language. Feminist re-readings of the Qur'an, hadith, and fiqh works are best done by people who can read the originals. Anyone can put forth fresh interpretations, and even limit those to available English translated materials, but they will never carry the weight needed for influence over a wide variety of the world's Muslims. The writing style is cumbersome and not friendly for students' uses.

This is a diiferent size and seldom available in any color - but I do wish they would offer in Blue and Tan