No Truth Without Beauty : God, the Qur'an, and Women's Rights

In this comprehensive open access book, written for readers from any or no religious background, Leena El-Ali does something remarkable. Never before has anyone taken on every last claim relating to Islam and women and countered it not just with Qur'anic evidence to the contrary, but with easy-...

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Main Author: El-Ali, Leena (auth)
Format: eBook
Published: Bern Springer Nature 2022
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