What is it about?
It is about the new voice in Saudi Arabia to challenge the religious authority
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Why is it important?
One of the pioneering studies of this phenomenon
Perspectives
My take is that this study with the example I brought of Suhaila Zein al Abedain, gives an ample image of the new dynamic that Saudi women are playing by standing up for their religious rights against the patriarchal monopoly on Islam.
Dr Hatoon A. AL FASSI
University of Manchester
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This page is a summary of: Challenging the authority of religious interpretation in Saudi Arabia, September 2019, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.4324/9781351025348-13.
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