Islamic reform revisited: Shahrur's religious interpretation on the statusof women - Exploring novel avenues of epistemology, linguistics, and religious criticism

Islamic reformism, as a response to the challenges that the modern world pr esents to the religious tradition, evolves in a variety of directions. In t he Arab world, Shahrur with his religious interpretation is one of the nove l avenues that is presently being explored. He proposes a triple criticism of traditional religious interpretations: Epistemological, linguistic and c ritical. An illustration of this reformist voice is his new interpretation of the status of women in Islam and of polygamy.