![]() ![]() Roberto Sirvent: How can your book help BAR readers understand the current political and social climate?Īsma Barlas: My book isn’t directed at understanding the current political and social climate but in challenging it, especially its negative stereotypes of Islam. Barlas is professor emerita of politics at Ithaca College. Her book is Believing Women in Islam: Unreading Patriarchal Interpretations of the Qur'an, Revised Edition. This week’s featured author is Asma Barlas. In this series, we ask acclaimed authors to answer five questions about their book. “ This ideology of male supremacy that Muslims have grafted into the Qur’an actually runs counter to its teachings about both God and about human beings.” This book focuses on whether discrimination and violence against Muslim women are sanctioned by the Qur’an, as critics of Islam allege. ![]()
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