No Truth Without Beauty: God, the Qur'an, and Women's Rights

Leena El-Ali

Khaled Abou El Fadl (Foreword)

Paperback, 306 pages

9783030835842

 

Contents

Part 1: First the Quran, then Islam

1. A Spiritual Journey

2. Hadith Corpus

3. Hadith Content

4. Women and the Development of Hadith Literature

 

Part 2: The Nature of Women

5. Women Were Not Created of Inferior Celestial Material

6. Eve Is Not Blamed for the Fall from Eden, Nor Are Women Guilty By Association

7. Women are Not a Constant Source of Social Discord: Nor Naturally Conniving!

8. Women Were Created with the Exact Same Spiritual and Intellectual Capacity as Men

9. When Men Deprive Women of their Free Will, They Are Not Protecting Anyone

10. God Does Not Prefer Sons over Daughters

 

Part 3: The Rights of Women

11. Women Were Not Meant to be Subordinate to Men

12. Inheritance

13. Nuptials

14. Marriage

15. Divorce

 

Part 4: Some Inconvenient Truths

16. Clothing

17. Segregation

18. Witnesses

 

Part 5: Carnal Matters

19. Sexual Misconduct

20. Domestic Violence

21. Virgins: There are no 72 Virgins Waiting for Anyone in Paradise