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Review from previous edition An essential contribution! Karen Bauer and Feras Hamza's judicious and thorough study engages longstanding and pressing questions about the coexistence in the Qur'an of gender hierarchy with moral-spiritual equality. They show that its treatment of women and households must be understood within its salvific message - and that women and households are key to its vision of individual and communal salvation. * Kecia Ali, Boston University * Bauer and Hamza's magisterial study shows how the extensive amount of Qur'anic data on women makes compelling and coherent sense when viewed from an innovative vantage point: the importance of households in the Qur'an's late antique Arabian milieu. Women, Households, and the Hereafter in the Qur'an brims with fresh and exciting insights into how the Qur'an ties together the social and the soteriological and how it negotiates the tension between this-worldly hierarchies and an egalitarian eschatological piety. This monograph constitutes a major advance in the scholarly understanding of the Qur'anic world-view. * Nicolai Sinai, Oxford University * A refreshingly original contribution. The authors focus on the Qur'an's deeply egalitarian moral message, a radical idea in the late antique Arabian social setting of households and patronage structures. For the field of gender studies, the authors offer a consistently innovative reading of the Qur'an. The sacred text's treatment of women serves to designate the emerging Muslim community as a moral community: how can women who are vulnerable in a patriarchal patronage society become moral exemplars? The response offered is a profound revision of the traditional scholarly understanding. * Roberto Tottoli, University of Naples * An original and significant contribution that contextualises the tafs?r Bay?n al-S?'ada within the history of Iranian Twelver Shi'ism and throws light on the development of the Shi'i Sufism that emerged as a consequence of the efforts of key Iranian Shi'i figures, especially those associated with the Gun?b?d? order. In addition to providing a translation of the introduction and parts of the Bay?n, it also takes account of pertinent historiographical issues surrounding it and other related elements, such as Shi'i history and Sufism among Shi'i intellectuals. This book will be valuable also to those outside the field of expertise, and of interest to the general reader. An intellectually impressive work. * Milad Milani, Western Sydney University * A refreshingly innovative and exciting study of a neglected field. Cancian makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of modern Qur?anic exegesis, the study of Sufism in Shi?i contexts, in addition to the modern intellectual history of Iran. Sul??n ?Al? Sh?h's works are rare treats ranging over a number of the traditional Islamic humanities, and their significance and lasting legacy are drawn out, explained and demonstrated with great skill. Texts and contexts are treated with care, empathy and theoretical sophistication. Cancian's work ought to be essential reading for students and specialists alike interested in the intersection of religion, culture and politics in modern Iran. * Sajjad H. Rizvi, University of Exeter *

An essential contribution! Karen Bauer and Feras Hamza's judicious and thorough study engages longstanding and pressing questions about the coexistence in the Qur'an of gender hierarchy with moral-spiritual equality. They show that its treatment of women and households must be understood within its salvific message - and that women and households are key to its vision of individual and communal salvation. * Kecia Ali, Boston University * Bauer and Hamza's magisterial study shows how the extensive amount of Qur'anic data on women makes compelling and coherent sense when viewed from an innovative vantage point: the importance of households in the Qur'an's late antique Arabian milieu. Women, Households, and the Hereafter in the Qur'an brims with fresh and exciting insights into how the Qur'an ties together the social and the soteriological and how it negotiates the tension between this-worldly hierarchies and an egalitarian eschatological piety. This monograph constitutes a major advance in the scholarly understanding of the Qur'anic world-view. * Nicolai Sinai, Oxford University * A refreshingly original contribution. The authors focus on the Qur'an's deeply egalitarian moral message, a radical idea in the late antique Arabian social setting of households and patronage structures. For the field of gender studies, the authors offer a consistently innovative reading of the Qur'an. The sacred text's treatment of women serves to designate the emerging Muslim community as a moral community: how can women who are vulnerable in a patriarchal patronage society become moral exemplars? The response offered is a profound revision of the traditional scholarly understanding. * Roberto Tottoli, University of Naples *

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Dr Karen Bauer is a Senior Research Associate at the Institute of Ismaili Studies, London. With Feras Hamza she edited An Anthology of Qur'anic Commentaries, Volume II: On Women (OUP, 2021). She is the author of Gender Hierarchy in the Qur'an: Medieval Interpretations, Modern Responses and editor of Aims, Methods and Contexts of Qur'anic Exegesis (2nd/8th-9th/15th Centuries). She has written numerous articles on the history of Qur'anic interpretation, on women's status in Islamic texts and on the history of emotions in Islam. She is the series co-editor for IQSA Studies in the Qur'an. Dr Feras Hamza is Head of the School of the Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Wollongong in Dubai, UAE, and is also a Senior Research Fellow in the Qur'anic Studies Unit at the Institute of Ismaili Studies, London. He co-edited, with Karen Bauer, An Anthology of Qur'anic Commentaries, Volume II: On Women (OUP, 2021), and with Sajjad Rizvi and Farhana Mayer, An Anthology of Qur'anic Commentaries, Volume I: On the Nature of the Divine (OUP 2008). He is the general series editor for the multi-volume project Anthologies of Qur'anic Commentaries and has authored several historical articles on the early Muslim community, as well as articles on the epistemological and methodological approaches in Qur'anic and tafs&#299r studies.

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