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Woman's Identity and the Qur'an: A New Reading.(Book review)
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Middle East Quarterly
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June 22, 2006
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Woman's Identity and the Qur'an: A New Reading. By Nimat Hafez Barazangi. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2004. 172 pp. $59.95.
Elegantly written and intelligently argued, this is an exceptional book in which the title, for once, does not promise too much. Barazangi, a research fellow at Cornell University, is a scholar to watch with a mind to admire. In a field littered with the strident, the clumsy, the redundant, the intellectually dishonest, and the overtly partisan, she skirts all those traps with grace and shows a way to move forward the grid-locked discussion over core Islamic values--especially but not only those concerning women.
She asks two basic ...
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