MARC Record from Library of Congress

LEADER: 02882cam a2200289 a 4500
001 98060516
003 DLC
005 20140409074635.0
008 980608m1998 cau b 001 0 eng d
010 $a 98060516
020 $a0910735654 (pbk.)
035 $a(OCoLC)40711960
040 $aMoS$cMoS$dDLC
042 $alccopycat
050 00 $aBP134.W6$bW5 1998
100 1 $aWilcox, Lynn.
245 10 $aWomen and the holy Quran :$ba sufi perspective /$cLynn Wilcox.
260 $aRiverside, CA :$bM.T.O. Shahmaghsoudi,$cc1998-
300 $av. <1 > ;$c23 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [263]-265) and index.
505 8 $aMachine generated contents note: Part I: Background -- Chapter 1: Background -- History -- The Role of the Quran -- The Hadith -- Shari'a -- Books on Women and the Quran -- Chapter 2: The Text -- Knowledge -- Encoding -- Arabic -- Textual Orientation -- The Translation Selected -- Textual Organization -- The Sufi Perspective -- Order of the Text -- Chapter 3: Reading the Quran -- Reading -- Interpretation of Meaning -- Chapter 4: Revolutionary Changes -- A Cultural Perspective -- Female Infanticide -- Marriage -- Licentiousness -- Widows -- Divorce -- Zihar -- Inheritance -- Slavery -- Part II: Essentials -- Chapter 5: Creation -- Beginning -- Adam and Eve -- The Heavens and the Earth -- Chapter 6: The Goal -- Chapter 7: Love -- Chapter 8: Remembrance of God -- Prayer -- Ablutions -- Covering the Body -- Time -- Qibla (Direction of Prayer) -- Chapter 9: Principles -- Unity -- Prophecy -- Imamate -- Judgment Day -- Hajj (Pilgrimage) -- Chapter 10: Knowledge -- Chapter 11: Death -- Part III: Women and Men -- Chapter 12: The Examples: Model Women -- Positive Examples -- Mary -- The Wife of Pharaoh -- Negative Examples -- The Wives of Noah and Lot -- Additional Models -- The Mother of Moses -- The Queen of Sheba -- The "Barren" Women -- Eve -- Zulaikha -- Chapter 13: Women and Men -- Chapter 14: Marriage -- The Relationship -- Pleas -- Divorce -- Wives of the Prophet -- Chapter 15: Motherhood -- Chapter 16: Other Depictions of the Female -- Female Deities -- Female Animals -- Part IV: Behavior -- Chapter 17: The Signs of God -- Chapter 18: Behavior -- Relationship with God -- Charity -- Rules of Conduct -- Compassion -- Kindness -- Healing -- Modesty -- Veiling -- Sexuality -- Theft -- Chapter.19: Sustenance -- Physical: Food -- Physical: Drink -- Physical: Mental and Emotional -- Fasting -- Divine Wine -- postscript -- Appendix A: Genealogy of Maktab Tarighat Oveyssi -- Shahmaghsoudi -- Appendix B: Quranic References to Women -- biography.
650 0 $aWomen in the Qurʼan.
650 00 $aWomen in Islam.
630 00 $aQurʼan$xCriticism, interpretation, etc.
650 0 $aSufism.
650 0 $aWomen$xReligious life.
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy02/98060516.html