Finn.Is women's inequality supported by the Qur'an? Do men have the exclusive right to interpret Islam's holy scripture? In her best-selling book Believing Women in Islam: Unreading Patriarchal Interpretations of the Qur'an, Asma Barlas argues that, far from supporting male privilege, the Qur'an actually encourages the full equality of women and men.
A revised second edition was published in 2019 (in the U.K., by Saqi), along with an abridged version co-authored with David R.
My book, Believing Women in Islam : Unreading Patriarchal Interpretations of the Qur'an(University of Texas Press, 2002), has been translated into Bahasa Indonesia (2005), while derivative essays have appeared in Arabic, Bengali, Spanish, Dutch, German, French and Portuguese. Indeed, read as such, rather than as sanctifying a gender hierarchy, they are more congruent with the Qur'an's "ethics of responsiblization" (to rephrase Jacques Derrida) that emphasize mutual care and guardianship between women and men. Currently, I'm writing about why an Islamic theology must be ungendered if it is to adhere to the Qur'an's statements about God and why certain Qur'anic allusions to men's and women's roles are time- and culture-bound. More recently I've argued against secular and feminist approaches that dispute the Qur'an's sacrality in the name of women's rights and feminist justice. In the wake of 9/ 11/ 2001, I critiqued the West's more than millennium-long history of recycling specious representations of Islam/Muslims, which suggests an eternal return of the repressed.
In the next, I countered dominant readings of Islam’s scripture, the Qur'an, that justify discrimination against women, with an anti-patriarchal hermeneutics that draws both on the Qur'an's conceptions of God as being beyond sex/gender and on its indifference to gender as a feature of human identity. In my first book, I traced the militarism of Pakistan's politics (in contrast to India's electoral), to British colonialism. Much of my scholarship, which is outside my disciplinary field of International Studies, is about different forms of violence, especially, colonial, religious, sexual/ textual, and epistemic.
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