The Egalitarian Call of the Qur’ān

Beyond the decolonial? Decolonial and Muslim feminist perspectives

“…Deconstructing verses such as those of creation from the Qur’an highlight Islam as an egalitarian religion that is focused on equality (Lamrabet, 2016):O Mankind! Be careful of your duty to your Lord Who created you from a single soul and from it created its mate, and out of the two abroad a multitude of men and women.…”

“…(Quran, 4:1)It is important to note that, as for Islam or rather the Qur’anic text itself, nowhere does one find the conception of Eve coming from Adam's ribs (an origin story that is often cited as the entire culture of oppression of women and idea of inequality and inferiority of women). However, it is shocking to see the extent to which religious work and Muslim imagination remain associated with the traditionalist Judaeo-Christian understanding (Lamrabet, 2016). The details of how out of that ‘Soul’ its mate was created are not given to us in the Qur’an, but rather what is important here is the recognition that all human beings have sprung from the same root and from a single being.…”