Feminist Hermeneutics of the Quran and Epistemic Justice
Feminist Hermeneutics of the Quran and Epistemic Justice

Summary/Abstract: In this article I present religion and especially the position of women in religion as a narrative product. This means that, like other realities, it is made of speeches with validity and authority generated by the influence of power mechanisms favoring the authority of patriarchy in its preparation. I describe, from a personal perspective, the two dominant discourses about Muslim women, both products of an orthodoxy: the idealization, sustained by religious patriarchy of Islam, and demonization, which corresponds to a Western vision universalizing their own particular way of seeing reality through the interaction of privileges and representations of otherness. Since neither of these discourses gives voice to Muslim women, I argue that the feminist hermeneutics in Islam is an effort to establish a discourse of gender justice from Muslim women’s voices. Feminist hermeneutics of Islam is a discursive deconstruction in favor of epistemic justice, namely a proposal to establish Muslim women as the authoritative voice in matters that concern them.

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