The Qur’an, Women and Naṣr Ḥāmid Abū Zayd’s Hermeneutics A Critical Reflection on the ‘Women’s Question Between the Hammer of Modernity and the Anvil of Traditions: A Study in the History of Texts’

Abū Zayd’s broader intellectual contributions are widely recognized, his extensive work on women’s issues remains underexplored. He authored several studies on the topic, including dedicated articles and two volumes that collect his studies on women’s issues: Al-Mar’a fī khiṭāb al-azma (Women in the Discourse of Crisis, 1994) and Dawā’ir al-khawf: Qirā’a fī khiṭāb al-mar’a (Circles of Fear: A Reading of the Discourse on Women, 2004). This critical reflection provides a critical reflection on his paper Qaḍiyya(t) al-mar’a bayn sindān al-ḥadātha wa miṭraqa(t) al-taqālīd: dirāsa fī tarīkh al-nuṣūṣ (1999) on the occasion of its translation into English and Turkish by the Kadem Journal of Women’s Studies into Turkish and English.