Background Most problems for women stem from the fact that Muslims on the whole buy into
an ideology of male supremacy that manifests itself in a variety of forms. These range from …

Does Islam call for the oppression of women? Non-Muslims point to the subjugation of
women that occurs in many Muslim countries, especially those that claim to be" Islamic," …

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 interpretation of the Qur'an by women scholars, while not without precedent in Islamic
history, is primarily a recent phenomenon. Such interpretation with a focus on gender as a …

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 …

CAN the Qur'an only be read in a patriarchal way? Does the fact that the Qur'ān has been
read primarily through a patriarchal lens by premodern male exegetes prevent …

This book distinguishes Islam as a spiritual message from the sociopolitical context of its
revelation. While the sacred text of the Quran reveals a clear empowerment of women and …

Today, the issue of Muslim women is held hostage between two perceptions: a conservative
Islamic approach and a liberal Western approach. At the heart of this debate Muslim women …

A literalist reading of the Qur'an focuses not so much on the question of whether the Qur'an
contains universal and/or particular/specific verses, ie, statements. An increasing number of …

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 …