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discussion about the status of woman’s political leadership has produce pros and contra among ulama. There’s a lot of argument from each group from theological, sociological, or historical perspective. Women’s self image in classical tafsir literature still have discriminative attitude to woman, positioned as inferior creature and weak intellectuality. This bias interpretation brought up stigma that woman is not proper to bear certain task, especially role on public domain as in political field. Therefore, in order to enhance insight to interpretation that have character gender responsive and humanistic, we shouldn’t only interpret with literal and legalistic aspect, but must be broaden to contextual-emansipatory. Finally, result of interpretation didn’t escape from Islamic vision and mission as rahmatan lil alamin’s religion.