Dr. Asma Barlas Women should Escape from the Circle of Oppression

Some Muslim women, however, tend to see the Quran as a libratory text which could actually free women from oppression. One of the scholars who try to offer a more emancipatory interpretation of the Quran is Dr. Asma Barlas from Ithaca College in the US. In her latest book, Believing Women” in Islam: Unreading Patriarchal Interpretations of the Qur’an, she closely examines the male oriented interpretations of the Quran and offers an antipatriarchal alternative.