Total Publications: 4
    • Windows of Faith, Gisela Web, ed. pp. 51-71, (Syracuse University Press, 2000).
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    • Introduction to Muslim Women’s Rights

      “The topic of Muslim women’s rights is vast; Muslim jurists have been writing about it for centuries. Because jurists are partly the product of their societies and these societies were and continue to be highly patriarchal, Islamic literature has been saturated with a patriarchal perspective on women’s rights. This perspective has become so entrenched that it has been rendered invisible. For most Muslims it no longer represents the ijtihad of individuals. Instead, it has come to be viewed by them as an ‘objective’ reading of Qur’anic text.”

    • A. Jaggar and I. Young, ed., pp. 541 49 (Blackwell, 1997)
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    • Islamic Law, The Blackwell Companion to Feminist Philosophy

      The NGO Forum, held in Houairou, China, in the fall of 1995, was a defining moment in the global dialogue among women on issues relating to Islam. Prior to that event, discussions of Islamic shari ‘ah law (law based on religious foundations), in particular, and Islam, in general, had been escalating both in the West and in Muslim countries.

    • Women and Islam, ed. Azizah al-Hibri, pp. 207-219 (Pergamon Press, Oxford, 1982)
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    • Islamic Herstory: or How did we Get into This Mess

      To write about ‘Women and Islam’ is to write about a host of issues only one of which is ‘the Status of Women in Islam’. For Islam and Women have shared an enduring though often turbulent relationship throughout the patriarchal upheavals of the past 1400 years in the Arab World. To comprehend this relationship fully, we must comprehend first the socio-political conditions affecting women in the Arab peninsula before the rise of lslam, and the subsequent impact of Islam upon the lives of these women, as well as upon society as a whole.

    • Modesty

      Freedom from vanity (al-tawāḍuʿ) is a central concept in Islam, directly connected to the concept of tawḥīd (unity or divine oneness). According to the Qurʿān, Satan’s fall from grace was a direct result of his vanity. Having been ordered by God to bow to Adam, all the angels complied except Satan. Satan explained his defiance as follows: “I am better than [Adam]; You created me from fire and created him from clay” (7:12).