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Part I: Background Chapter 1: Background History The Role of the Quran The Hadith Shari'a Books on Women and the Quran Chapter 2: The Text Knowledge Encoding Arabic Textual Orientation The Translation Selected Textual Organization The Sufi Perspective Order of the Text Chapter 3: Reading the Quran Reading Interpretation of Meaning Chapter 4: Revolutionary Changes A Cultural Perspective Female Infanticide Marriage Licentiousness Widows Divorce Zihar Inheritance Slavery Part II: Essentials Chapter 5: Creation Beginning Adam and Eve The Heavens and the Earth Chapter 6: The Goal Chapter 7: Love Chapter 8: Remembrance of God Prayer Ablutions Covering the Body Time Qibla (Direction of Prayer) Chapter 9: Principles Unity Prophecy Imamate Judgment Day Hajj (Pilgrimage) Chapter 10: Knowledge Chapter 11: Death Part III: Women and Men Chapter 12: The Examples: Model Women Positive Examples Mary The Wife of Pharaoh Negative Examples The Wives of Noah and Lot Additional Models The Mother of Moses The Queen of Sheba The "Barren" Women Eve Zulaikha Chapter 13: Women and Men Chapter 14: Marriage The Relationship Pleas Divorce Wives of the Prophet Chapter 15: Motherhood Chapter 16: Other Depictions of the Female Female Deities Female Animals Part IV: Behavior Chapter 17: The Signs of God Chapter 18: Behavior Relationship with God Charity Rules of Conduct Compassion Kindness Healing Modesty Veiling Sexuality Theft Chapter.19: Sustenance Physical: Food Physical: Drink Physical: Mental and Emotional Fasting Divine Wine postscript Appendix A: Genealogy of Maktab Tarighat Oveyssi Shahmaghsoudi Appendix B: Quranic References to Women biography