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 …

The Western focus on 'Islamic feminism'takes two extreme forms: it is often dismissed as an
oxymoron for attaching a religious (patriarchal) adjective to an emancipatory feminist project …

This balanced exploration provides the basis for an energetic engagement with what it
means to be a Muslim woman in a globalized world. The expert essays in Women and Islam …

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 …

Contesting Feminisms explores how Asian Muslim women make decisions on appropriating
Islam and Islamic lifestyles through their own participation in the faith. The contributors …

This essay argues for maintaining a critical space between two intellectual paradigms that
inform Muslim women's anticolonial equality struggles in the neocolonial present, Islam 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 …

The current Islamic revival is frequently associated with fundamentalism and radical politics.
This reinforces Western perceptions of Islamic women as victims of a sexist and reactionary …

This volume brings together the work of a group of Islamic studies scholars from across the
globe. They discuss how past and present Muslim women have participated in the struggle …

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 …