Women's bodily experiences as an Epistemic Basis for KUPI's Qur'anic Interpretation

Mahmudah, Nur ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9572-8229 and Islahuddin, Islahuddin (2025) Women's bodily experiences as an Epistemic Basis for KUPI's Qur'anic Interpretation. Ulul Albab: Jurnal Studi Islam, 26 (2). pp. 262-281. ISSN 1858 - 4349, 2442 - 5249

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Abstract

Feminist scholarship has advanced reinterpretive approaches grounded in
principles of justice and gender equality. These approaches seek to deconstruct
entrenched patriarchal biases in Quranic Interpretation. They validate
women’s knowledge and experiences as authoritative epistemic sources. TheCongress of Indonesian Women Ulama (KUPI) places women's bodilyexperiences at the center of its gender-fair Quranic interpretation. This article aims to explore the epistemological basis of such interpretation. It does so by examining women’s bodily experiences, interpretive strategies, and implications. Using primary sources, including official KUPI documents and relevant literature, this study employs content analysis from a feminist standpoint theory by Harding. The study concludes that KUPI recognizes the unique experience
of women's bodily experiences as an epistemological base of interpretation.
KUPI has a strategy to integrate women's perspectives and experiences in
reading the Quranic text. This process begins with problem identification and reflection, and proceeds to the construction of a re-narration of verse interpretation. KUPI's choice to utilize women's bodily experiences supports the documentation of women's experiences and the transformation of women's body
knowledge into collective knowledge and communal narratives. This processlegitimizes women’s bodily experiences as new, legitimate, and authoritative knowledge. KUPI's interpretative model affirms women’s bodily experience as an epistemic subject. This study contributes to Quranic scholarship on feminist tafsir or exegesis. It asserts women’s bodily experiences as an epistemic authorityin Quranic exegesis, breaking masculine dominance and producing an Indonesian gender-fair interpretation

Item Type:	Journal Article
Keywords:	epistemic authority; KUPI; quranic interpretation; women’s bodily experience
Subjects:	22 PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGIOUS STUDIES > 2204 Religion and Religious Studies > 220403 Islamic Studies 22 PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGIOUS STUDIES > 2204 Religion and Religious Studies > 220403 Islamic Studies > 22040301 Al-Quran, Tafsir and related science
Divisions:	Faculty of Sharia and Law > Department of Al-Quran and Tafseer studies
Depositing User:	Nur Mahmudah
Date Deposited:	15 Jul 2026 08:28

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