Quran & Women's Liberation

Asma Barlas
Quran & Women's Liberation

Most anti-women ideas among Muslims, as well as practices like female circumcision and stoning to death for adultery, pre-date Islam and do not originate in, nor are they endorsed by, the Quran. ………Although many feminists condemn Islam’s “uncompromising monotheism,” it is this very inflexibility about the primacy of God’s rule that opens up possibilities for radical equality for women inasmuch as God’s rule is not based in differentiation, hence in a theory of sexual inequality.