ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book focuses on the most recent scholarship that discusses a number of interpretational mechanisms applied to the hadith by scholars committed to gender egalitarian interpretations of Islam that are necessary for this to be possible. It offers a broad contextualisation of the analysis regarding the relationship between the academic study of gender and religion in addition to providing a brief overview of feminism as it relates to the academic fields. The book relates to the importance of the interpretative and hermeneutical methodologies of approaching the Qur’an and Sunna (manhaj) in the process of constructing gender norms and rules in Islam. It provides a short history of the Qur’anic exegesis that will illustrate the evolution of the various exegetical tendencies in Islamic thought.
