The Centre of Islamic Studies is delighted to invite you to Reconsidering Verses on Women in the Qur’an: A Conversation with Karen Bauer and Feras Hamza. This event will be held at the Kamran Djam Lecture Theatre (DLT) in the SOAS Main Building on 10 April at 17:30 BST.
Dr Karen Bauer and Dr Feras Hamza have co-authored several publications, beginning with An Anthology of Qurʾanic Commentaries, Vol II: On Women. This anthology, following Volume I: On the Nature of the Divine, offers annotated translations of Qur’anic commentaries spanning twelve centuries as well as interviews with contemporary Muslim scholars.
The Anthology led them to re-examine the place of women in the Qur’an(also Koran. Arabic term meaning, ‘recitation’ or ‘scripture’): Muslims believe that the Holy Qur’an contains divine revelations to the Prophet Muhammed received in Mecca and Medina over a period of… More itself, and in 2023 they published their monograph, Women, Households and the Hereafter in the Qurʾan: A Patronage of Piety, which comprises a comprehensive analysis of the female subject in the Qur’an. This book offers a fresh perspective by undertaking the first historical-critical study of all the verses on women in the Qur’an and by offering an initial overview of households and patronage in late antique social structures that took the place of formal state structures in the Qur’an’s tribal milieu.
Speakers
Dr Karen Bauer
Associate Professor
Dr Karen Bauer (PhD, Princeton) is an Associate Professor in the Qur’anic Studies Unit at the IIS. Dr Bauer’s research centres on the Qur’an and its reception history, the history of emotions in Islam, and gender in Islamic history and thought. Dr Bauer’s publications include An Anthology of Qur’anic Commentaries, Vol II: On Women (2021, with Feras Hamza), Gender Hierarchy in the Qur’an: Medieval Interpretations, Modern Responses (2015), Aims, Methods, and Contexts of Qur’anic Exegesis (2013), and numerous articles.
Dr Feras Hamza
Senior Research Fellow and Anthology Coordinator
Dr Feras Hamza (PhD, Oxford) is a Senior Research Fellow and Anthology Coordinator, and Head of the School of the Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Wollongong in Dubai, UAE. His publications include An Anthology of Qur’anic Commentaries, Vol I: On The Nature of the Divine (2009, with Sajjad Rizvi), An Anthology of Qur’anic Commentaries, Vol II: On Women (2021, with Karen Bauer) and numerous articles.
