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In this episode with Dr. Hadia Mubarak, we discuss her book, 'Rebellious Wives, Neglectful Husbands: Controversies in Modern Quranic Commentaries'. In this book, she examines how colonialism, nationalism, and modernization catalyzed new perspectives on women in the Qur'an. Dr. Mubarak focuses on Tafsīr al-Manār, Fī Zilāl al-Qur'an, and al-Tahrīr wa'l-Tanwīr, placing them in dialogue with medieval commentaries spanning from the ninth to the fourteenth centuries. This comparative analysis encompasses verses addressing neglectful husbands (4:128), rebellious wives (4:34), polygyny (4:3), and divorce (2:228).
Contrary to viewing the exegetical tradition as uniformly patriarchal, Dr. Mubarak's work reveals a nuanced and evolving tradition with diverse interpretations of women and gender in the Qur'an. Rather than dichotomizing the Qur'an as egalitarian and the exegetical tradition as patriarchal, she advocates for a critical engagement with tafsīr studies in understanding women and gender in Islam.
Dr. Hadia Mubarak is an Assistant Professor of Religion at Queens University of Charlotte, where she teaches courses on Islam, comparative scriptures, women and gender in the Muslim world, the history of Islam in America, and religious representation in popular culture. Some of her other publications include, “Gender and Qurʾanic Exegesis” in The Routledge Handbook of Islam and Gender, ed. Justine Howe (Brill, 2020); “Change Through Continuity: A Case Study of Q. 4:34 in Ibn ʿĀshūr’s Al-Taḥrīr wa-l-Tanwīr” (Journal of Qurʾanic Studies 20.1 February 2018); and “Breaking the Interpretive Monopoly: A Re-Examination of Verse 4:34” (Hawwa 2.3).
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