Analysis of the Readings of Contemporary Commentators and Researchers of the Qur’an on the Social Status of Women

Abstract

One of the most important interests of researchers in the sciences of the Qur’an and social issues in the field of women is the analysis and study of interpretations, their revision and recognition of interpretations in terms of the approach and the type of interpreter’s view of verses related to women. The type of viewpoint of interpretations seems to differ in terms of intellectual, epistemological, and cultural principles, the current situation that directly governs the interpreter's life and sometimes the interpreter's gender in some cases. Paying attention to the commonalities of approaches and the differences between interpretations and the origin of these approaches can be very effective in contemporary interpretations in dealing with verses relating to women in resolving many doubts. It can also respond to attacks and challenges from the West with slogans of freedom, gender and legal equality, and raising issues such as Islam's opposition to women's freedom and rights. This article, by using the library method and documents in a descriptive and analytical manner, seeks to achieve the following goals: Criticizing and evaluating these approaches by expressing the approach of the three interpretations, the traditional, the ijtihadi, and the modernist approach in confronting the verses related to women in the field of women's social status.