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the contributions that my group and I plan to add to the article are a Human Rights section and we will be adding sub headings under this category such as: Women and Queer interpretation. NatalieR97 (talk) 22:32, 8 March 2019 (UTC)

sources so far: Ali, Kecia, “Destabilizing Gender, Reproducing Maternity: Mary in the Qur’an,” JIQSA 2		(2017): 89-109.

Ali’s article presents a queer reading of the Qur’an, and also speaks to how Mary is represented in the text. This will be used mainly when discussing the human rights portion of the project, as well as the section on the representation of women in the Qur’an.

Gade, Anna M, Perfection Makes Practice: Learning, Emotion, and the Recited Qur’an in Indonesia. University of Hawai’i Press Honolulu.

In Chapter Three of Gades book, she covers Tajwid, the rules for correct vocalization for learning to read the Qur’an. These rules differ by culture, and help people learn the text. This will be used to further elaborate on Qur’anic Hermeneutics.

An Interpretation of the Qur’an: English Translations of the Meaning (Bilingual Edition). Translated by Major Fakhry. New York: New York University Press, 2000.

This is the version of the Qur’an that will be used when quoting/referencing the text. NatalieR97 (talk) 22:36, 8 March 2019 (UTC)

Barrett: Peer Review
Natalie, you have added some good information from some reliable sources. It seems to me that the information that you are adding to this article is helpful and makes the points that are already made, stronger. You have done a good job of adding a good amount of information to the position of women and minority groups section of the page. I also like how you added information about a minority group that was not already talked about. Although, I think that you're additions will be stronger if you add more information that is not just the quotations. This will help the reader to understand the context of the quotes that you are adding in more depth. I think that your first addition that you made would fit better under the section regarding women since the introduction should be explaining hermeneutics in general well before going into detail on specific topics. Another suggestion that I have would be to keep quotes from the same author together to help the reader in following what is being said instead of jumping back and forth from different authors to help with the organization of the page. I think that summarizing what one author says and then using another author to back up or further support that point though is very helpful.

Grade: C — Preceding unsigned comment added by Barrettbaugh (talk • contribs) 00:20, 6 April 2019 (UTC)

JM's Peer Review
Two comments on what your individual changes do well:

Adds to the existing discussion of feminist interpretations of the Qur'an.

Includes Amina Wadud's hermeneutical model to the introduction of the entry.

Two comments on what needs improvement:

I agree with Barrett's comments that your edits to the "Position of Women and Minority Groups" section are confusing. You need to insert more discussion of these citations, and not just fill the paragraph with citations without any discussion of how they relate to each other.

When you insert a citation, you don't need to restate that in your discussion (as in, "Zayn R. Kassam mentions in the book, x). The citation itself is sufficient for understanding the attribution.

Please revise the heading title "Position of Women and Minority Groups." This is confusing--their position in terms of what? You are providing information on how women and minorities read the Qur'an differently in ways that support their agendas for social and gender justice. Make this more clear.

In this same section, you need to make it clear how these minority interpreters of the text are innovating on the idea of hermeneutics as it is commonly understood. How are their models of interpretation the same, and also different, from classical tafsir?

If you are in charge of making edits to include sexually-sensitive interpretations of the text, Scott Kugle's "Homosexuality in Islam" is a primary text in the field. He has a chapter on the Qur'an and sexuality that we are reading for next week. This is a clear content gap in the entry.

Preliminary grade: B Jaclyn-Michael (talk) 21:32, 8 April 2019 (UTC)