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Podcast: New Books in Women's History
Episode: Karen Bauer and Feras Hamza, "An Anthology of Qur'anic Commentaries (vol. 2): On Women" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Description: Karen Bauer and Feras Hamza's co-written book An Anthology of Qurâanic Commentaries (vol. 2): On Women (Oxford UP, 2022) is a collection of historical and contemporary commentaries on the Qurâan. It covers five issues: human creation and the idea of âa single soulâ; marital roles, specifically Qurâanic verse 4:34 and womenâs status in a marriage; Mary, mother of Jesus; womenâs legal testimony; and Qurâanic ideas of modesty, specifically of veiling. A chapter is devoted to each of these topics, comprising classical, medieval, modern, and contemporary interpretations of these verses. All chapters include various Muslim perspectives, such as Sunni, Twelver Shi...