This article examines developments in 'Islamic feminism', and offers a critique of feminist
theories, which construct it as an authentic and indigenous emancipatory alternative to …

Few debates among expatriate Iranian feminists and leftists have been as contentious as
those centered on Islamic feminism. The very term as well as its referent are subjects of …

Islamic feminism has gained currency since the 1990s and has become the label for a new
brand of feminist scholarship and activism that is associated with Islam. But this article …

Recent ideological shifts in Western capitalist countries have impelled many Muslim
intellectuals to examine the discourses of feminism and human rights in the Islamic world …

As a positive result of increasing modernization, in recent decades many Muslim societies,
including the Middle East, have witnessed an unprecedented rise in women's literacy rates …

Ahmadi reveals in this article how, by emphasizing the historical context of the holy texts,
challenging the clergy's monolithic interpretational power, and reformulating Islamic …

This paper explores ways in which a multifaceted understanding of Islamic feminism can
contribute to productive dialogue about the future of Muslim women in both Islamic and …

Women in almost every Muslim society have placed issues of women's rights firmly at the
heart of their societies' politics. Women-centered secular religious and/or nonreligious …

Since its inception, mainstream Western feminism has constituted a site of exclusion on
multiple fronts, a consequence of first-wave feminist assumptions that have continued to …

I will begin by making my positioning explicit. My name is Sa 'diyya Shaikh, an Arabic name.
I am South African, born and raised solely on the continent of Africa, and my ancestry is …