Over the past 40 or more years, scholarship on women, gender and sexuality in Islamic law
has developed to produce varied approaches to law reform and different narratives of gen …

This paper explores ways in which women can pursue and achieve equality and justice in
Islamic law. It begins by examining constructions of gender rights in Islamic legal thought …

This chapter offers a survey of approaches and narratives that have emerged in the study of
woman, gender, sexuality and Islamic law from the 1980s into the present. Theorised in the …

This paper proposes that Islamic thought on gender rights and roles has embarked on a
particularly dynamic phase, one where reconsideration of laws affecting women now has far …

This chapter outlines the conceptions of gender evident in Islamic legal tradition,
summarises how classical Muslim jurists, in the dominant interpretations of the Shari'ah …

How Islam treats women is one of the most hotly contested questions of our times. Islamic
law is often misrepresented as a single monolithic concept, rather than a collection of …

The history of Islamic feminism demonstrates that, particularly during the formative periods,
many of the critiques of Islamic gender discrimination that were being developed during this …

One of the joys of teaching at a liberal arts college is the interdisciplinarity accorded to me in
my teaching. With this in mind, I decided to crosslist my Islamic law course not only with the …

I am honoured to have been asked to deliver the 2003 Professor Noel Coulson Memorial
lecture)~ I was not Professor Coulson's student, but like so many students of Islamic law, I …

The subject of this third edition of my book covering the status of women in Islam and under
modern Islamic legislation, has come into prominence as a result of the current worldwide …