Do Muslim Women Need Saving? is a refreshingly accessible, jargon free text written in an
engaging and limpid style. It presents a comprehensive indictment of global Western actors' …

Over half a billion women live in the Muslim world. Despite the rich complexity of their social,
cultural, and ethnic differences, they are often portrayed in monolithic terms. Such …

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK “Explains powerfully how Muslim women are
affected by the rise of fundamentalism.”—Dan Rather In recent years, the expanding …

Contributors from Africa, the Middle East, and Central, South and Southeast Asia explore the
status roles, and contributions of Muslim women, demonstrating the immense diversity and …

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 …

Raised a Muslim but increasingly outraged by her religion's hostility towards women, Ayaan
Hirsi Ali has now become one of today's most talked-about, admired and controversial …

Through years of Taliban oppression, during the US-led invasion and the current
insurgency, women in Afghanistan have played a hugely symbolic role. This book looks at …

Discourses about Muslim women's victimization, which have intensified during the US-led
“war on terror,” position Muslim women as objects in a debate of Islam versus the West …

Islam is often portrayed, especially in Western media, as an alien, violent, hostile, and
monolithic religion, whose adherents are intent upon battling nonbelievers throughout the …

Half a billion Muslim women inhabit some 45 Muslim-majority countries, and another 30 or
more countries have significant Muslim minorities, including, increasingly, countries in the …