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#45-19 Not from Man’s Rib!

A rousing talk by Islamic theologian Riffat Hassan, exploring how the story of Adam and Eve crept into Islam, though it is not in the Q’uran. Speech from a panel about the rise of conservatism at the NGO Forum of the UN 4th World Conference on Women in Huairou, China, 1995.

Host(s): Mary O’Grady
Featured Speakers/Guests: Riffat Hassan, Pakistani-American theologian and a leading Islamic feminist scholar of the Qur’an, is now a Professor Emerita, University of Louisville.

Credits: Recorded by Frieda Werden; produced and hosted by Mary O’Grady.

Comments: Thanks to a generous crowd-funding response, WINGS has digitized all our recordings from the historic 4th World Conference on Women. As these are annotated, they will be released to the public in this, the 25th anniversary year of that event. For information, contact wings@wings.org

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dXen1zVbmKCrcktb-p1rS8OVZGPr6zK9/view