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Saturday, December 8, 2007

[mukto-mona] [A must read] Still Quarrelling over the Quran By Asma Barlas

 
An excellent, most enlightening scholarly piece. A must read.
 
"In this article, Barlas joins the debates on the right and authority of Muslim women to interpret the Quran 1. As a way to move the conversation beyond simply asserting or refuting the right of this or that person to
read the Quran on this or that condition, she distinguishes between different types of interpretations and authority. Simultaneously, she attempts to come to grips with the tensions between an individual believer's reading of the Quran and that of the community.The Quran itself … does not tie interpretive rights to race, sex, class, or even literacy."
 
 
-Kalim
 
 
 
Still Quarrelling
over the Quran
 
By Asma Barlas
 
Opening paragraph:
 
 
Some scholars argue that in order to interpret the Quran, one must avoid all subjectivity. I do not agree with this proposition since, to be human, is to live a life that is politically, economically, sexually, culturally, and historically situated and subjectivity is merely the effect of encountering and comprehending the world through this situatedness. It is, therefore, unavoidable. Hence, instead of pretending that we encounter texts
from some pure or abstract location outside the confines of time and space, we need to be open, honest, and self-conscious about the material and ideological sites from which we read them. In fact, that is one of the pre-requisites for entering into the hermeneutic circle.
My first thesis, then, is that no Quran interpreter can avoid subjectivity because it is an inescapable human condition. At best, we can be more or less cognizant about how our subject positions shape our reading of a text....
 
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