No Truth Without Beauty
God, the Qur’an, and Women's Rights
Abstract
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-to-use tools available to all. How can a woman’s testimony be worth half of a man’s? How can men divorce their wives unilaterally by uttering three words? And what’s with the obsession with virgins in Paradise? Find the chapter on any of the seventeen topics in this book, and you will quickly learn a) where the myth came from and b) how to bust it. The methodology pursued is simple. First, the Qur’an is given priority over all other literary or “scriptural” sources. Second, the meaning of its verses in the original Arabic is highlighted, in contrast to English translations and/or widespread misunderstanding or misinterpretation.
Keywords
Open Access; Qur'an; Koran; Quran; niqab; hijab; IslamDOI
10.1007/978-3-030-83582-8ISBN
9783030835828, 9783030835828Publisher
Springer NaturePublisher website
https://www.springernature.com/gp/products/booksPublication date and place
Bern, 2022Imprint
Palgrave MacmillanSeries
Sustainable Development Goals Series,Classification
Islam
Theology
Cultural studies
Social and political philosophy
Politics and government