Monthly Talk: Modern Readings of the Qur’an through a Gendered Lens

This lecture will explore the tension between patriarchal and egalitarian readings of verses in the Qur’an that concern women and provide an overview of the critiques launched by modern Muslim women scholars against the androcentric views of many premodern male exegetes.  The lecture will conclude with my own assessment of these positions based on a holistic reading of the Qur’an.

Asma Afsaruddin is Herman B Wells Endowed Professor of Islamic Studies in the Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures at Indiana University, USA.  She is the author and editor of nine books, including her most recent The Oxford Handbook of Islam and Women (Oxford University Press, 2023).