The Qurʾan and Domestic Violence: An Islamic Feminist, Spiritually Integrative Reading of Verse 4:34
This paper examines Qurʾan 4:34, also known as the "beating verse," through an Islamic feminist lens, focusing attention on the importance of spirituality in the contemporary context. It contends that reading the Qurʾan as a spiritual method sheds new light on this verse, changing its inte...
| Published in: | International journal of practical theology |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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De Gruyter
[2019]
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| In: |
International journal of practical theology
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Koran. Sure an-Nisaʾ 34
/ Islam
/ Domestic violence
/ Feminism
/ Spirituality
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| RelBib Classification: | AG Religious life; material religion BJ Islam FD Contextual theology NBE Anthropology |
| Further subjects: | B
Intervention
B intervention strategies B Spirituality B Domestic violence B islamischer Feminismus B Qur'an B Domestic Violence B Koran B Islamic Feminism |
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| Summary: | This paper examines Qurʾan 4:34, also known as the "beating verse," through an Islamic feminist lens, focusing attention on the importance of spirituality in the contemporary context. It contends that reading the Qurʾan as a spiritual method sheds new light on this verse, changing its interpretation from one that makes allowances for wife-beating to one that provides tangible techniques to combat this phenomenon. The paper examines how the verse introduces both positive and negative intervention strategies to restrain and overcome wife-beating, in conversation with Sufi conceptualizations of the spiritual path and progression from the "animal self" to the self-critical self. |
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| ISSN: | 1612-9768 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: International journal of practical theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1515/ijpt-2018-0058 |