Pembacaan Teks Nashr Hamid Abu Zaid Atas Relasi Laki-Laki dan Perempuan

Rusydi, Muhammad

Jurnal Muadalah
Vol 3, No 2 (2015): Perempuan Banjar

This paper seeks to understand how the reading of text made by Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd, especially the problem of relationships between men and women. His work which in directly related to womens problems is Dawâir al-Khauf. In the book, Abu Zaid had admitted that he wanted to do ijtihâd solving the women problems. For him the fundamental problem in Islam is text. According to him, alquran as a text when revealed has made dialogue with social and cultural around it, especially the Arab community in which the quran was first revealed. The reading of quran, then, necessitates not only ‘ulûm al-qur’an but also humanities sciences such as semiotics and hermeneutics which could help us to reconstruct the intrinsic values of the quran. On this method, Abu Zaid has suggested “productive interpretation”, qira’ah muntijah, in reading alquran. Furthermore, it has been found that alquran is actually very humanizing women, where it is contradictory to the reality and the reading of Islamic texts today.