The Institute of Ismaili Studies Research Associate Presents at a Qur’an Conference at SOAS: Women’s Testimony and the Re-Interpretability of the Qur’an

Dr Karen Bauer, Research Associate in the Qur’anic Studies Unit at the IIS, presented at the Seventh Biennial Conference on The Qur’an: Text, Society & Culture held at SOAS. Dr Bauer’s paper, entitled Women’s Testimony and the Re-Interpretability of the Qur’an, investigated a specific verse of the Qur’an, 2:282. According to Dr Bauer, this verse seems, at first glance, to be an unequivocal statement that two women should testify in the place of one man, and therefore that women’s testimony is not equal to that of men.

via The Institute of Ismaili Studies – IIS Research Associate Presents at a Qur’an Conference at SOAS.