ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the scholarship of progressive Muslim scholars who have developed important hermeneutical principles which critique both the past and present patriarchal interpretations of the Qur'an and sunna/hadith and who have simultaneously put in place sophisticated non-patriarchal Qur'an-Sunna hermeneutical models. The chapter examines their arguments, and defines non-patriarchal Qur'an-Sunna hermeneutics is in order. The chapter explains non-patriarchal Qur'an-Sunna hermeneutics as a body of scholarship that advocates for gender-just formulations of legal rights for Muslim women from within the Islamic epistemic and methodological framework by systematically deriving and justifying these rights on the basis of a particular conceptualization and interpretation of the inherited Muslim traditions, especially its primary fountainheads, the Qur'an and the Sunna. The chapter focuses on the actual interpretational models employed by leading progressive Muslim scholars: Amina Wadud, Asma Barlas, Nasr Abu Zayd, Mohsen Kadivar and Adis Duderija which can pave the way to the formulation of non-patriarchal Qur'anic hermeneutics.
