The Islamic feminist hermeneutics applied to the reinterpretation of The Quran

• Main Author: Katjia Torres
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Universidad de Alicante 2015-12-01
• Series: Feminismo/s
• Subjects: género; feminismo islámico; hermenéutica; el corán; iytihad
• Online Access: https://feminismos.ua.es/article/view/2015-n26-la-hermeneutica-feminista-islamica-aplicada-a-la-reinterpretacion-de-el-coran

This article focuses on the origin and development of Islamic feminist hermeneutics of the foundational texts of Islam – the Quran and Sunnah –. The reinterpretation of the founding scriptures of Islam, far from the traditional patriarchal and misogynistic readings, emerged in the late 80s and early 90s, giving birth to the paradigm of Islamic feminism as critical to the identification of Islam as a source of inequalities gender. Our analysis of the first methodological proposals – as well as more recent from innovative approaches – made by Muslim theologians and thinkers women about the liberating role of sacred texts can play in the emancipation of Muslim women concludes that exegetical hermeneutics, from the beginnings of Islam, registered methodological differences that have not looked in a global policy consensus.