Perplexity of a Muslim Woman

Using the methodology of modern scholars in the fields of Arabic lexicography linguistics and psychoanalysis Tunisian feminist scholar Olfa Youssef investigates the rulings about inheritance marriage and homosexuality in the Qur’anic text itself and compares them with the androcentric interpretations provided by male Muslim theologians and legal scholars from medieval times to the present which today inform the body of the sharia law in many parts of the Muslim world.