This article looks at the trajectory from secular feminism to Islamic feminism to Muslim
holistic feminism, examining the changing meanings of 'the secular'and 'the religious' and …

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 …

By the early 1990s there were clear signs of the emergence of a new gender discourse that
came to be labelled 'Islamic feminism'. In this paper, I first set this new discourse against the …

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 …

Feminism as a phenomenon engaging with issues of women's rights, women's liberation,
and gender equality as part and parcel of the rights, liberation, and equality of all was …

Islam along lines historically associated with feminist inquiry; they implicated the patriarchal
norms of early Muslim societies and contemporary Muslim practice in the global decline of …

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 …

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 …

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 …