Women and the holy Quran : a sufi perspective /

Women and the holy Quran : a sufi perspective /

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Main Author: Wilcox, Lynn (Author)

Format: Book

Language: English

Published: Riverside, CA : M.T.O. Shahmaghsoudi, c1998-

Subjects:

Qurʼan > Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Women in Islam.
Women in the Qurʼan.

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Call Number: BP134 .W6 W5 1998

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Table of Contents:
  • Part I: Background
  • Chapter 1: Background
  • History
  • The Role of the Quran
  • The Hadith
  • Shari'a
  • Books on Women and the Quran
  • Chapter 2: The Text
  • Knowledge
  • Encoding
  • Arabic
  • Textual Orientation
  • The Translation Selected
  • Textual Organization
  • The Sufi Perspective
  • Order of the Text
  • Chapter 3: Reading the Quran
  • Reading
  • Interpretation of Meaning
  • Chapter 4: Revolutionary Changes
  • A Cultural Perspective
  • Female Infanticide
  • Marriage
  • Licentiousness
  • Widows
  • Divorce
  • Zihar
  • Inheritance
  • Slavery
  • Part II: Essentials
  • Chapter 5: Creation
  • Beginning
  • Adam and Eve
  • The Heavens and the Earth
  • Chapter 6: The Goal
  • Chapter 7: Love
  • Chapter 8: Remembrance of God
  • Prayer
  • Ablutions
  • Covering the Body
  • Time
  • Qibla (Direction of Prayer)
  • Chapter 9: Principles
  • Unity
  • Prophecy
  • Imamate
  • Judgment Day
  • Hajj (Pilgrimage)
  • Chapter 10: Knowledge
  • Chapter 11: Death
  • Part III: Women and Men
  • Chapter 12: The Examples: Model Women
  • Positive Examples
  • Mary
  • The Wife of Pharaoh
  • Negative Examples
  • The Wives of Noah and Lot
  • Additional Models
  • The Mother of Moses
  • The Queen of Sheba
  • The "Barren" Women
  • Eve
  • Zulaikha
  • Chapter 13: Women and Men
  • Chapter 14: Marriage
  • The Relationship
  • Pleas
  • Divorce
  • Wives of the Prophet
  • Chapter 15: Motherhood
  • Chapter 16: Other Depictions of the Female
  • Female Deities
  • Female Animals
  • Part IV: Behavior
  • Chapter 17: The Signs of God
  • Chapter 18: Behavior
  • Relationship with God
  • Charity
  • Rules of Conduct
  • Compassion
  • Kindness
  • Healing
  • Modesty
  • Veiling
  • Sexuality
  • Theft
  • Chapter.19: Sustenance
  • Physical: Food
  • Physical: Drink
  • Physical: Mental and Emotional
  • Fasting
  • Divine Wine
  • postscript
  • Appendix A: Genealogy of Maktab Tarighat Oveyssi
  • Shahmaghsoudi
  • Appendix B: Quranic References to Women
  • biography.