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Podcast: New Books in Medieval History
Episode: Karen Bauer, âGender Hierarchy in the Qurâan: Medieval Interpretations, Modern Responsesâ (Cambridge UP, 2015)
Description: In Gender Hierarchy in the Qurâan: Medieval Interpretations, Modern Responses (Cambridge University Press, 2015), Dr. Karen Bauer tackles one of the foremost hot-button questions of the day: What is the role of gender in the Qurâan? Dr. Bauerâs adroit study will leave the reader informed but perhaps also disrupted, given the vast spectrum of competing, sometimes contradictory, interpretive paradigms that she explores. A key strength of the text, moreover, is that in addition to its meticulous investigation of primary texts from medieval and modern traditions of Qurâanic exegesis, Dr. Bauer also conducts numerous in-person interviews with prominen...