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 …

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 …

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 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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Abstract Asma Lamrabet's Women in the Qur'an: An Emancipatory Reading sufficiently
fulfills its promise to offer an emancipatory approach to the Qur'an. It argues for a re-reading …

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 …