EPISTEMOLOGI PEMIKIRAN TOKOH PEREMPUAN DALAM AL-QURAN PERSPEKTIF BARBARA FRAYER STOWASSER

Orientalist figures generally focus on studying classical themes far from everyday life's realities. However, it is different with Barbara Freyer Stowasser who raises contemporary gender issues by reconceptualizing the thoughts of female figures in the Qur'an written through her book, Women in the Qur'an, Tradition, and Interpretation. The method used in this research is library research or library study with a qualitative approach and epistemology theory as an analysis knife. This research found that women's freedom and equality with men are what Stowasser highlights in her book. She argues that it is not only the female protagonist who is marked as a role model with her various virtues. More than that, Stowasser highlights the antagonistic female characters in the Quran as symbols of women's freedom in their meanings. Women can determine their life path in any society they live in, provided that they will be responsible for the quality of their decisions.