Muslim women scholars and activists such as Amina Wadud and Asma Barlas argue that the
Qur'an evinces gender equity. They do so by suggesting that verses in the Qur'an that are …

Rachel M. Scott Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Blacksburg, Virginia he
interpretation of sacred texts regarding the rights, role, and status of women is a challenge …

The contemporary debate about 'the status of women in Islam'revolves around several
issues such as veil, polygamy, divorce and some verses of Qur'an that have been presumed …

The condition of women in many Muslim societies does not reflect the role of women
intended by the Qur'an, the Islamic Holy book. An essential reason for this disparity between …

Aysha Hidayatullah presents the first comprehensive analysis of contemporary feminist
interpretations of the Qur'an. Synthesizing prominent feminist readings of the Qur'an in the …

Can a woman be a Muslim and a feminist? This is the question that most often comes up
from the public when we pause to analyze the latest women's readings of the sacred text of …

Roundtable: Feminism and Islam 143 beings as possible and especially not to persons of
diverse gender identities and sexual orientations, seriously limits a reader's expectations as …

This article examines the trend of Islamic Feminist interpretation by analysing the thought of
two leading Muslim feminists ie Amina Wadud and Asma Barlas. The selection of Wadud …

I am going to defend the centrality of Qur'anic revelation in Islamic feminism, in a radical
sense. Not only as a text that has been revealed and fixed many centuries ago, but as a …

The chapter highlights the importance of lived realities to the hermeneutics of the Qur'an and
questions the classical interpretation of the Qur'an, evidencing that the dominant and prolific …