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 …

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 …

As a positive result of increasing modernization, in recent decades many Muslim societies,
including the Middle East, have witnessed an unprecedented rise in women's literacy rates …

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 …

The ascendancy of political Islam since the 1960s and 1970s throughout the Muslim world
has spawned a variety of 'Islamist movements and activisms'. They range from those that …

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 …

This article analyzes the emergence of female Islamist leaders in the Middle East and North
Africa, and the glaring contradictions between their feminist views and their roles as political …

In a time of increasing hostility towards Islam, this collection extends the boundaries of
global feminism to include Islamic women. Challenging Orientalist assumptions of Muslim …

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 …