Olfa Youssef

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Olfa Youssef
ألفة يوسف
Youssef in 2017
Born1964
Sousse, Tunisia
NationalityTunisian
EducationÉcole Normale Supérieure de Tunis (BA)
Occupation(s)Linguist, Islamic scholar

Olfa Youssef is a

religious freedom and cross-religious dialogue.[1]

Biography

Olfa Youssef was born in 1964 in the coastal city of Sousse, where she received her primary and secondary education. She then studied at the École Normale Supérieure de Tunis to receive a BA and an "aggregation" diploma. Being valedictorian during most of her studies, she was awarded and honored by President Habib Bourguiba in 1987. Youssef's PhD in Arabic language and literature defended in 2002 deals with the subject of “Polysemy in the Quran.”[2]

Youssef occupied various administrative positions including serving as the director of the Higher Institute for Children's Executives in Carthage as well as the head of the National Library of Tunisia from 2009 to 2011.[3]

Academic work

In 2003, Youssef published her doctoral study "Polysemy in the Quran" which adopts a linguistic approach in its analysis of the Quranic text to come to the poststructuralist conclusion that meaning is inevitably multiple. Generally, Youssef claims that although certain

dogmas have always been taken for granted throughout the long history of Islam, there is no proof in the Quran that makes them unquestionable rules.[4]

Such ideas are expressed, for instance, in her book The Confusion of a Muslim Woman: On Inheritance,

polygamous. The book led to controversies and court suits.[5]

Youssef wrote The Dramatic Discourse of Mahmoud Messadi's The Dam[6][7] and co-authored The Dramatic Discourse of Mahmoud Messadi's The Dam (1994) and published Women in Quran and Sunnah (1997), The Quran at the Risk of Psychoanalysis (2007), Bereft of Reason and Religion (2003), and Yearning (2010) among other books.[7]

References

  1. ^ "Olfa Youssef - AL KITAB - La librairie Al Kitab est au service du livre et de la culture depuis plus de 50 ans en Tunisie, et maintemant dans le monde entier grâce au web. TUNIS LE COLISEE". AL KITAB (in French). Retrieved 2020-10-09.
  2. ^ "Olfa Youssef". aokas-aitsmail.forumactif.info (in French). Retrieved 2020-10-09.
  3. ^ (in French) « Olfa Youssef dénonce « la démission de l’autorité » et renonce à la direction de la Bibliothèque nationale », Leaders, 4 mai 2011
  4. ^ Youssef, Olfa (January 2011). "Olfa Youssef, son parcours, ses combats".
  5. ^ "Interview d'Olfa Youssef". news.imperial.plus (in French). Retrieved 2020-10-09.
  6. ^ "The essence of Qur'an is justice — and denying equality of men and women violates divine justice". Al-Mesbar Center. 2018-04-19. Retrieved 2022-08-04.
  7. ^ a b World Cat author listing
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