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Islamic Feminism Booklist

This document provides a list of books and articles that contribute to scholarship on Islamic feminism and challenge patriarchal understandings of gender and women in Islam. The list includes works from authors such as Leila Ahmed, Amina Wadud, and Margot Badran among others.

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Islamic Feminism Booklist

This document provides a list of books and articles that contribute to scholarship on Islamic feminism and challenge patriarchal understandings of gender and women in Islam. The list includes works from authors such as Leila Ahmed, Amina Wadud, and Margot Badran among others.

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Islamic feminism Booklist

Below is a list of some of the most prominent books and articles that contribute to scholarship
on Islamic feminism. These are works that challenge patriarchal, and often misogynistic,
understandings of gender, specifically women, and present a more complicated picture of the
Sharias stance on issues related to women.
Leila Ahmed, Women and Gender in Islam: Historical Roots of a Modern Debate
Azizah Al-Hibri, An Introduction to Muslim Womens Rights
Kecia Ali, Paradigms and Pragmatism in Muslim Womens Reformist Thinking
Kecia Ali, Sexual Ethics and Islam
Asghar Ali, Islam, Women, and Gender Justice
Qasim Amin, The Liberation of Women
Ghazala Anwar, Muslim Feminist Discourses
Reza Aslan, The Keeper of the Keys: Muhammad in Mecca
Margot Badran, Feminism and the Quran
Margot Badran, Feminism in Islam: Secular and Religious Convergences
Margot Badran, Toward Islamic Feminism: A Look at the Middle East
Nimat Barazangi, Womens Identity and the Quran
Asma Barlas, Believing Women in Islam: Unreading Patriarchal Interpretations of the
Quran
Asma Barlas, Does the Quran Support Gender Equality? Or, Do I Have the Autonomy to
Answer this Question?
Asma Barlas, Globalizing Equality: Muslim Women, Theology, and Feminisms
Asma Barlas, Re-Understanding Islam: A Double Critique
Karen Bauer, The Male Is Not Like the Female (3:36): The Question of Gender
Egalitarianism in the Quran
Ayesha Chaudhry, Domestic Violence and the Islamic Tradition

Ayesha Chaudhry, The Problems of Conscience and Hermeneutics: A Few Contemporary


Approaches
Khaled Abou El-Fadl, Speaking in Gods Name: Islamic Law, Authority and Women
Farid Esack, Islam and Gender Justice: Beyond Simplistic Apologia
Juliane Hammers American Muslim Women, Religious Authority, and Activism: More Than a
Prayer
Riffat Hassan, Equal Before Allah? Woman-Man Equality in the Islamic Tradition
Aysha Hidayatullahs Feminist Edges of the Quran
Ziba Mir-Hosseini, Stretching the Limit: A Feminist Reading of the Sharia in Post
Khomeini Iran
Ghada Karmi, Women, Islam, and Patriarchalism
Scott Kugles Homosexuality in Islam
Anitta Kynsikehto, Islamic Feminism: Current Perspectives
Fatima Mernissi, The Veil And The Male Elite: A Feminist Interpretation Of Womens Rights
In Islam
Sadiyya Shaikh, A Tafsir of Praxis: Gender, Marital Violence, and Resistance in South
African Muslim Community
Sadiyya Shaikh, Exegetical Violence: Nushuz in Quranic Gender Ideology
Laury Silvers, In the Book, We Have Left Out Nothing: The Ethical Problem of the
Existence of Verse 4:34
Barbara Stowasser, Women in the Quran, Traditions, and Interpretation
Mohammad Ali Syed, The Position of Women in Islam: A Progressive View
Amina Wadud, Inside the Gender Jihad: Womens Reform in Islam
Amina Wadud, Quran and Woman: Re-reading the Sacred Text from a Womans Perspective
Amina Wadud, Towards a Quranic Hermeneutics of Social Justice: Race, Class, and
Gender

Amina Wadud, Whats Interpretation Got to Do With it: The Relationship Between Theory
and Practice in Islamic Gender Reform
Nazira Zain-ed-Din, Unveiling and Veiling: On the Liberation of the Woman and Social
Renewal in the Islamic World
Ayubi Zahra, Alimah to Imamah: Muslim Womens Approaches to Religious Leadership
and Authority in the American Context

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