...Karen Bauer Woman’s Identity and the Qur’an: A New Reading , Barazangi Nimat Hafez . Gainesville : University of Florida Press , new ed., 2006 . Pp. xii, 172 . ISBN 0813030323 . Copyright © 2008 Association for Middle East Women’s Studies 2008...

... to improve women’s conditions” (7). Woman’s Identity and the Qur’an: A New Reading Nimat Hafez Barazangi. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, new ed., 2006. Pp. xii, 172. ISBN 0813030323. Reviewed by Karen Bauer, Institute of Ismaili Studies In Woman’s...

... relevant to the discourse of the fi elds its author wishes to infl u- ence. Barazangi’s views should be considered by scholars of Islam and of Islam and gender, for her methods and interpretations are an important part of current discourse. Sexual Ethics and Islam: Feminist Refl...