Research on the normativity of girls’ hijab
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Knowledge Politics of the American Academia on Women’s Citizenship in the…
Islam’s view on the status of women has been among the controversial topicsin the American universities in recent decades. The…
Inheritance Law for Women: Islamic Feminism and Social Justice
The deficient of females’ portion compared to males’ portion in the distribution of inheritance has always become an issue,…
Traditional Mechanism to Eliminate Violence against Women: A Perspective…
Different points of view have been projected by scholars with regard to the role culture and religious beliefs play when it comes…
Viability of Socio-Economic Insurance Provisions for a Woman in Islam:…
History bears the fact that universally women and children are the most vulnerable members in the human society. Notwithstanding…
Who Speaks for Islamic Family Law? Debates on Islamic Law Compilation (KHI)…
This article discusses a debate within the formulation of Islamic Family Law in Indonesia, especially the various figures behind.…
A Theological Approach to the Identity Challenges of a Modern Muslim Woman
The present paper focuses on the conflict of the two main identity maker factors for a modern Muslim woman: the Islamic rules and…
The Effects of Islam’s Sociocognitive Transformation on Female Rights and…
The advent of Islam resulted in an extraordinary revolution in human history because of the new intellectual ideology that…
Rules and Practices of Women’s Inheritance Rights in Islam: Bangladesh…
The study aims to map the status of women right of inheritance in Bangladesh with reference to Islamic injunctions and social…
Women Rights to Inheritance in Muslim Family Law: An Analytical Study
Rights of women areone of the widely discussed yet debatable issues across the Western and Muslim world. It is seen in the Muslim…
Book Review: Modest Fashion: Styling Bodies, Mediating Faith
Finally it seems the academic study of hijab has come of age. The contributorsto this collection neither treat it as an object of…
Book Review: The Burqa Affair across Europe: Between Public and Private…
This edited collection provides a comprehensive analysis of the legal contextswithin which the “burqa affair” is located across…
Book Review: Recovering the Female Voice in Islamic Scripture: Women and…
The absence of women’s voices from the scriptures of the major world religionshas been the subject of feminist theologians’…
Book Review: Domestic Violence and the Islamic Tradition: Ethics, Law, and…
The polyvalent Qur’anic text lends itself to multiple interpretations, dependingupon one’s presuppositions and premises. In fact,…
Book Review: Teaching Arabs, writing Self: Memoirs of an Arab-American…
Teaching Arabs, Writing Self traces Evelyn Shakir’s evolution from a buddingstudent of canon English literature who was…
Book Review: Do Muslim Women Need Saving?
In this extension of her important 2002 article in American Anthropologist,Lila Abu-Lughod examines the problematic nature of the…
Book Review: Gender and Equality in Muslim Family Law, Justice, and Ethics…
In the aftermath of the Arab Spring, some advocated a turn toward “tradition,”thereby raising fears that women would be pushed…
Muslim Men Writing for Muslim Women: Ibn al- Jawzi’s Aḥkām al-Nisā’
During a discussion in my “CPRL 373 Women in Islam” class, students werebaffled by Abu Hamid al-Ghazali’s (d. 1111) candid…
Book Review: Sufi Narratives of Intimacy: Ibn Arabi, Gender, and Sexuality
Sa’diyya Shaikh’s groundbreaking Sufi Narratives of Intimacy: Ibn Arabi,Gender, and Sexuality not only makes a significant…
Book Review: Women, Leadership, and Mosques: Changes in Contemporary…
Edited by Masooda Bano and Hilary Kalmbach, Women, Leadership, andMosques: Changes in Contemporary Islamic Authority is a…