Asma Barlas
Title
Asma Barlas
Rights
Photograph used with permission, all rights belong to author. Photograph taken by Professor Ulises Ali Mejías.
Birth Date
1950
Birthplace
Pakistani-American
Primary Sources
Barlas, A. (2019). Believing women in Islam: Unreading patriarchal interpretations of the Qur'an. University of Texas Press.
Barlas, A. (2019). Democracy, nationalism, and communalism: The colonial legacy in South Asia. Routledge.
Barlas, A. (2016). Secular and feminist critiques of the Qurʾan: anti-hermeneutics as liberation?. Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, 32(2), 111-121. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/jfemistudreli.32.2.18
Barlas, A. (2013). Uncrossed bridges: Islam, feminism and secular democracy. Philosophy & social criticism, 39(4-5), 417-425. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0191453713477346
Barlas, A. (2011). September 11, 2001: Remember Forgetting. Political Theology, 12(5), 727-736. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1558/poth.v12i5.727
Barlas, A. (2008). Engaging Islamic feminism: Provincializing feminism as a master narrative. Islamic feminism: current perspectives, 15-24.
Barlas, A. (2005). Globalizing equality: Muslim women, theology, and feminism. In On Shifting Ground: Middle Eastern Women in the Global Era, 91-110. Feminist Press.
Barlas, A. (2003). Jihad, holy war, and terrorism: the politics of conflation and denial. American Journal of Islam and Society, 20(1), 46-62.
Barlas, A. (2001). Muslim women and sexual oppression: Reading liberation from the Quran. Macalester International, 10(1), 15. https://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1250&context=macintl
Barlas, A. (2006). Qur'anic Hermeneutics and Sexual Politics. Cardozo L. Rev., 28, 143. https://heinonline.org/hol-cgi-bin/get_pdf.cgi?handle=hein.journals/cdozo28§ion=15
Barlas, A. (2006). Reviving Islamic Universalism: East/s, West/s, and Coexistence1. In Contemporary Islam (pp. 256-267). Routledge. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9780203965382-26/reviving-islamic-universalism-east-west-coexistence1-asma-barlas
Barlas, A. (2005). Globalizing equality: Muslim women, theology, and feminism. In On Shifting Ground: Middle Eastern Women in the Global Era, 91-110. Feminist Press.
Barlas, A. (2003). Jihad, holy war, and terrorism: the politics of conflation and denial. American Journal of Islam and Society, 20(1), 46-62.
Barlas, A. (2001). Muslim women and sexual oppression: Reading liberation from the Quran. Macalester International, 10(1), 15. https://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1250&context=macintl
Barlas, A. (2001). The Qur'an and Hermeneutics: Reading the Qur'an's Opposition to Patriarchy1. Journal of Qur'anic Studies, 3(2), 15-38.
Secondary Sources
Rahemtulla, S. (2017). 5 Against Patriarchy: The Reading of Asma Barla. In S. Rahemtulla (ed.), Qur’an of the Oppressed: Liberation Theology and Gender Justice in Islam, 161-225. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198796480.003.0005
Kassam, Z. (2003). [Review of “Believing Women” in Islam: Unreading Patriarchal Interpretations of the Qur’an, by A. Barlas]. The Arab Studies Journal, 11/12(2/1), 156–160. http://www.jstor.org/stable/27933880
Extra Resources
Asma Barlas. Ithaca College. Accessed October 10, 2023. https://www.ithaca.edu/faculty/abarlas
Pezerović, S. (October 19, 2023). Asma Barlas: Distinguishing between the Qur’an and our interpretations of it. Phralipen. https://phralipen.hr/en/2023/10/19/asma-barlas-distinguishing-between-the-quran-and-our-interpretations-of-it/
In Conversation with Professor Asma Barlas . (25 November, 2020). Youtube. Sofia Rehman. https://youtu.be/UdU7EhZ4Oy0
Asma Barlas - Women's Rights from within the Qur'an . (14 March, 2014). Youtube. Reset DOC - Dialogues on Civilisations. Accessed October 10, 2023. https://youtu.be/8ac6gA5kbzs
Pezerović, S. (October 19, 2023). Asma Barlas: Distinguishing between the Qur’an and our interpretations of it. Phralipen. https://phralipen.hr/en/2023/10/19/asma-barlas-distinguishing-between-the-quran-and-our-interpretations-of-it/
In Conversation with Professor Asma Barlas . (25 November, 2020). Youtube. Sofia Rehman. https://youtu.be/UdU7EhZ4Oy0
Collection
Citation
“Asma Barlas,” Decoloniality, First Nations Thinkers and thought and practices from the Global South, accessed September 12, 2024, https://omeka.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/decoloniality-and-thinkers-from-the-global-south/items/show/666.