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e. Women in the Quran are important characters and subjects of discussion included in the stories and morals taught in Islam. Most of the women in the Quran are represented as either mothers or wives of leaders or prophets. They retained a certain amount of autonomy from men in some respects; for example, the Quran describes women who converted ...
An-Nisa. An-Nisa' ( Arabic: ٱلنِّسَاء, An-Nisāʾ; meaning: The Women) [ 1][ 2] is the fourth chapter ( sūrah) of the Quran, with 176 verses ( āyāt ). The title derives from the numerous references to women throughout the chapter, including verse 34 and verses 4:127-130. [ 3]
Gender roles in Islam are based on scriptures, cultural traditions, and jurisprudence . The Quran, the holy book of Islam, indicates that both men and women are spiritually equal. The Quran states: "Those who do good, whether male or female, and have faith will enter Paradise and will never be wronged; even as much as the speck on a date stone."
An-Nisa, 34. An-Nisa 4:34 is the 34th verse in the fourth chapter of the Quran. [ 1] This verse adjudges the role of a husband as protector and maintainer of his wife and how he should deal with disloyalty on her part.
Islam portal. v. t. e. In Islam, a houri ( Arabic: حُـورِيَّـة ,حُورِيّ, romanized : ḥūriyy, ḥūrīya) [ Note 1] is a maiden woman with beautiful eyes who is described as a reward for the faithful Muslim men in paradise. [ 2] They are described as the same age as the men in paradise. Since hadith states people will be ...
Hermeneutics of feminism in Islam is a system of interpreting the sacred texts of that religion, the Quran and Sunnah. Hermeneutics [1] is the theory and methodology of interpretation, [2] [3] especially of sacred texts, [4] [5] and Islamic feminism has a long history upon which to draw. Muslim feminists reinterpret gendered Islamic texts and ...
Yusuf (surah) Yusuf ( Arabic: يوسف, romanized : Yūsuf, lit. 'Joseph') is the 12th chapter ( Surah) of the Quran and has 111 Ayahs (verses). [ 1] It is preceded by sūrah Hud and followed by Ar-Ra’d (The thunder). Regarding the timing and contextual background of the believed revelation ( asbāb al-nuzūl ), it was revealed toward the end ...
Wadud was born into an African-American family and converted to Islam. In 1992, Wadud published Quran and Woman, a work that critiqued patriarchal interpretations of the Quran. [37] Some strains of modern Islamic feminism have opted to expunge hadith from their ideology altogether in favor of a movement focusing only on Qur'anic principles.