Dissertation
Consciousness blossoming: Islamic feminism and Qur'anic exegesis in South Asian Muslim diaspora communities
Washington State University
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Washington State University
05/2009
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.7273/000005944
Abstract
My dissertation asks if and in what capacities everyday South Asian transnational Muslim women are engaged in feminist interpretations or exegesis of the Qur'an. Furthermore, if everyday women are actively conducting interpretation, my research seeks to formulate and clarify the different paths women take in their understanding of the Qur'an. I hypothesize that transnational Muslim females in the West are located in a liminal space, and that it is this very point of dislocation that is likely to propel them to engage, interpret and ultimately be empowered to question existing masculine interpretations of the Qur'an. This dissertation utilized ethnographic methodology to explore the varied pathways everyday South Asian Muslim women take in their understanding of the Qur'an.
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- Title
- Consciousness blossoming
- Creators
- Israt Turner-Rahman
- Contributors
- Nancy P. McKee (Chair)Jeannette-Marie Mageo (Committee Member) - Washington State University, Department of AnthropologyLinda S Stone (Committee Member) - Washington State University, Department of Anthropology
- Awarding Institution
- Washington State University
- Academic Unit
- Department of Anthropology
- Theses and Dissertations
- Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Washington State University
- Publisher
- Washington State University
- Number of pages
- 294
- Identifiers
- 99901055133601842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Dissertation