Who Erased Muslim Women From History? Scholarly Interpretation & Political turmoil

Описание: In this episode of WISE Women with Daisy Khan, host Daisy Khan sits with Professor Asma Afsaruddin, author of the Oxford Handbook of Islam and Women and a scholar of Middle Eastern languages and cultures at Indiana University Bloomington, who has spent decades reading the original Arabic sources that most Muslims never access. What she found is a trail of deliberate edits, borrowed myths, and politically motivated reinterpretations that buried women's authority one century at a time. The Quran never said women were made from a rib. That story was imported from outside and repeated until it became an accepted belief. The Arabic word for "obedience" in the Quran always referred to God, until male commentators quietly swapped it with "husband." And the same pattern that restricted women after the Mongol invasions of the 13th century is playing out in Afghanistan and America right now.

This episode is not merely an academic exercise. It is a reclamation. Professor Afsaruddin and her colleagues are not rewriting scripture. They are removing the additions men attached to it and letting the original text speak again. The question was never about what the Quran says about women. It always said it clearly. The question is about who was allowed to read it and what they chose to leave out.

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About : Asma Afsaruddin

Professor Asma Afsaruddin is the Class of 1950 Herman B. Wells Endowed Professor of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures at Indiana University Bloomington. She holds a PhD from Johns Hopkins University and has previously taught at Harvard and Notre Dame. She is the author or editor of nine books, including the Oxford Handbook of Islam and Women. She was inducted into the Johns Hopkins Society of Scholars in 2019 and named a Carnegie Scholar in 2005. Her research focuses on Quranic interpretation, gender in Islam, and Islamic political thought.

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