Gender Hierarchy in the Qur'an Medieval Interpretations, Modern Responses Bauer

Gender Hierarchy in the Qur'anMedieval Interpretations, Modern Responses\nAuthor(s): Karen Bauer\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781107041523, 978-1107041523\nSynopsis\nThis book explores how medieval and modern Muslim religious scholars ('ulam?') interpret gender roles in Qur'?nic verses on legal testimony, marriage, and human creation. Citing these verses, medieval scholars developed increasingly complex laws and interpretations upholding a male-dominated gender hierarchy; aspects of their interpretations influence religious norms and state laws in Muslim-majority countries today, yet other aspects have been discarded entirely. Karen Bauer traces the evolution of their interpretations, showing how they have been adopted, adapted, rejected, or replaced over time, by comparing the Qur'?n with a wide range of Qur'?nic commentaries and interviews with prominent religious scholars from Iran and Syri.