Towards a Qur'anic Hermeneutics of Social Justice: Race, Class and Gender
From the onset, one must dispel the idea that addressing gender issues or referring to "women" and "woman" is marginal to larger considerations of civil society and current global dynamics. Double standards with regard to images and treatment of women are indicators of distorted...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
1995
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Journal of law and religion
Year: 1995, Volume: 12, Issue: 1, Pages: 37-50 |
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| Summary: | From the onset, one must dispel the idea that addressing gender issues or referring to "women" and "woman" is marginal to larger considerations of civil society and current global dynamics. Double standards with regard to images and treatment of women are indicators of distorted visions of social justice. Without remorse, women are often consigned to a sub-category in the estimation and construction of the social order through which we acquire justice.What I discuss here are some preliminary ideas about social justice. My vision of social justice is predicated upon two things: my personal experiences of inequities because of race, class and gender; and my search in the Islamic tradition, and more precisely, in the Qur'anic text, for a perspective on civil society which dispels the tendencies towards oppression and social injustice. |
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| ISSN: | 2163-3088 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of law and religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/1051608 |