Qur'an and Woman: Rereading the Sacred Text from a Woman's Perspective by Amina Wadud
Published 1999 · 118 pages · 32,450 words · about 2 hours at an average pace · Religion & Spirituality, Feminist Literature, Essays & Criticism
How hard is Qur'an and Woman: Rereading the Sacred Text from a Woman's Perspective to read?
Qur'an and Woman: Rereading the Sacred Text from a Woman's Perspective scores 51 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it quite demanding. The score is a weighted composite of nine measures: four of how hard the prose is to parse, five of how hard the meaning is to extract.
- Vocabulary: 55 out of 100
- Wadud uses Arabic terms such as taqwa, nafs, khalifa and nushuz and the vocabulary of hermeneutics, but she glosses them as she goes. The prose stays academic and clear, closer to Notes from Underground in compactness than to anything ornate.
- Sentence structure: 50 out of 100
- Her sentences are scholarly and qualified but orderly, built to walk a reader through a grammatical argument verse by verse. They run longer than Orwell's declaratives and stay far from Jamesian nesting.
- Abstraction: 65 out of 100
- The book mixes concrete verse analysis with abstract questions of interpretive method, authority and gender in sacred text. Each theoretical claim is tested against specific Qur'anic passages.
- Information density: 62 out of 100
- In a short book Wadud packs in word-level Arabic analysis, exegetical history and methodological argument. Nearly every page carries a new verse or term to weigh.
How Qur'an and Woman: Rereading the Sacred Text from a Woman's Perspective is regarded
Qur'an and Woman: Rereading the Sacred Text from a Woman's Perspective holds a literary regard score of 67 out of 100, weighing its place in the canon, its critical reception, its influence on other writers, and the standing of its author. Regard is measured separately from difficulty: a demanding book is not necessarily an admired one.