Aysha Hidayatullah presents the first comprehensive analysis of contemporary feminist
interpretations of the Qur'an. Synthesizing prominent feminist readings of the Qur'an in the …

This article explores the topic of Islamic sexual ethics through two distinct but interrelated
epistemological modes. First, I briefly engage Islamic sexual ethics through the lens of …

Notions of justice and gender egalitarianism are central to the debates on the status of
women in the Qur'an today; however authors differ in their definitions of the terms of justice …

This chapter provides a brief critical-historical introduction to and assessment of American
Muslim women thinkers and scholars. We analyze the intellectual trajectories of these …

121 Roundtable: Feminism and Islam will find an able guide in Hidayatullah; conversely, those
who are seeking God outside a patr Page 1 121 Roundtable: Feminism and Islam will find an …

All religions that survive for any appreciable period of time must eventually confront the
problem of adapting to historical change. How much can beliefs and practices shift without …

Introducing students to the similarities and connections among the Hebrew Bible, New
Testament, and Qur'an is a means to introduce students to a shared source of humanity …

Feminist legal theorists have exposed the meta-textual meanings of language, the unnoticed
power plays in human relations, and the cultural biases that shape Western thought and …

This article examines how Islamic feminism, with its emphasis on embodied experiences as
sources of religious knowledge, has shaped the interpretive community of US Muslim …

The objective of this study is to examine a selection of works by late 20 th-and 21 st-century
Muslim women scholars in the United States engaged in feminist interpretations of the …