For example, the book looks at what the Quran says about how women should approach divorce, women initiating sex and how husbands should argue with their wives and when they should seek counsel from a non-patriarchal reading nor lens.Ī sma Barlas’ Believing Women In Islam has now an introductory edition assisted by David Raeburn Finn as in Barlas’ words, ‘ trying to get the academy to the community’ she says. The title covers everything that is usually misconstrued about the treatment of Muslim women from both in and out of the ummah. She was later dismissed by General Zia ul Haq on the same day she left her husband – her in-laws worked closely with the general and twisted a diary entry by Barlas, so the now academic and lecturer at Ithaca College, had to seek refuge elsewhere. Yet a thought that closely followed was why have I just found out about this?īarlas first wrote Believing Women In Islam in 1999, after her experience as the first woman to be inducted into the foreign service in Pakistan in 1976. My immediate reaction to finding a book translating the Qur’an from a non-patriarchal reading nor feminist one (in Barlas’s words, feminism is usually a colonialist act of largely trying to tell Muslim women they’re oppressed) was FINALLY.
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