Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Rukhsana Ahmads (edited volume of poetry) We Sinful Women: Contemporary Feminist Urdu Poetry
(includes both the original Urdu as well as English translations)
Leila Ahmeds A Quiet Revolution: The Veils Resurgence, from the Middle East to America
Leila Ahmeds Women and Gender in Islam: Historical Roots of a Modern Debate
Kecia Ali, Juliane Hammer, and Laury Silvers (edited volume) A Jihad for Justice: Honoring the Work
and Life of Amina Wadud
Kecia Alis Sexual Ethics in Islam: Feminist Reflections on the Quran, Hadith, and Jurisprudence
Yasmin Amins (article) Umm Salama and Her Hadith (not accessible here, but the author can be
contacted for access)
Abdullahi Ahmed An-Naims Islam and the Secular State: Negotiating the Future of Shari`a
Abdullahi Ahmed An-Naims Toward an Islamic Reformation: Civil Liberties, Human Rights, and
International Law
Zainah Anwar and Ziba Mir-Hosseinis (article) Decoding the DNA of Patriarchy in Muslim Family
Laws
Ednan Aslan, Marcia Hermansen, and Elif Medenis (edited volume) Muslima Theology: The Voices of
Muslim Women Theologians
Reza Aslans No god but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam
Hina Azams (article) The exclusion of Womens Testimony in The Hudud: Toward a Rethinking
Hina Azams Sexual Violation in Islamic Law: Substance, Evidence, and Procedure
Margot Badran & miriam cookes Opening the Gates, Second Edition: An Anthology of Arab Feminist
Writing
Asma Barlass Believing Women in Islam: Unreading Patriarchal Interpretations of the Quran
Beth Barons The Womens Awakening in Egypt: Culture, Society, and the Press
Karen Bauers Gender Hierarchy in the Qurn: Medieval Interpretations, Modern Responses
Marilyn Booths May Her Likes Be Multiplied: Biography and Gender Politics in Egypt
Ayesha Chaudhrys (article) The Problems of Conscience and Hermeneutics: A Few Contemporary
Approaches
miriam cooke & Margot Badrans Opening the Gates, Second Edition: An Anthology of Arab Feminist
Writing
miriam cookes Women Claim Islam: Creating Islamic Feminism Through Literature
Khaled Abou El-Fadls The Great Theft: Wrestling Islam from the Extremists
Khaled Abou El-Fadls Reasoning with God: Reclaiming Shariah in the Modern Age
Khaled Abou El-Fadls Speaking in Gods Name: Islamic Law, Authority and Women
Yvonne Haddad, John Espositos (edited volume) Daughters of Abraham: Feminist Thought in Judaism,
Christianity, and Islam
Juliane Hammers American Muslim Women, Religious Authority, and Activism: More Than a Prayer
Riffat Hassans (article) Equal Before Allah? Woman-Man Equality in the Islamic Tradition
Wilson Jacobs Working Out Egypt: Effendi Masculinity and Subject Formation in Colonial Modernity,
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Nikki Keddie and Beth Barons (edited volume) Women in Middle Eastern History: Shifting Boundaries
in Sex and Gender
Remke Kruks The Warrior Women of Islam: Female Empowerment in Arabic Popular Literature
Scott Kugles Homosexuality in Islam: Islamic Reflection on Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Muslims
Saba Mahmoods Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject
Ms Sharify-Funk Meenas Encountering the Transnational: Women, Islam and the Politics of
Interpretation
Fatima Mernissis The Veil And The Male Elite: A Feminist Interpretation of Womens Rights In Islam
Ziba Mir-Hosseinis Control and Sexuality: The Revival of Zina Laws in Muslim Contexts
Ziba Mir-Hosseinis Gender and Equality in Muslim Family Law: Justice and Ethics in the Islamic Legal
Process
Ziba Mir-Hosseinis (article) How to Challenge the Patriarchal Ethics of Muslim Legal Tradition
Ziba Mir-Hosseinis Islam and Gender: The Religious Debate in Contemporary Iran
Ziba Mir-Hosseinis (edited volume) Men in Charge?: Rethinking Authority in Muslim Legal Tradition
Ziba Mir-Hosseinis (article) Muslim Womens Quest for Equality: Between Islamic Law and Feminism
Valentine Moghadams (article) Islamic Feminism and its Discontents: Towards a Resolution of the
Debate
Hadi Mubaraks (article) Breaking the Interpretive Monopoly: A Re-Examination of Verse 4:34 (please
contact the author to access the article)
Sachiko Muratas The Tao of Islam: A Sourcebook on Gender Relationships in Islamic Thought
Afsaneh Najamabadis Women with Mustaches and Men without Beards: Gender and Sexual Anxieties of
Iranian Modernity
Omid Safis (edited volume) Progressive Muslims: On Justice, Gender, and Pluralism(Note: Omid Safis
blog, What Would Muhammad Do? is also a great read.)
Asma Sayeeds Women and the Transmission of Religious Knowledge in Islam (Note:An e-copy of this
book is available online for free through the publisher, Cambridge University Press. Please click here to access it.)
Sadiyya Shaikhs Sufi Narratives of Intimacy: Ibn Arab?, Gender, and Sexuality
Hania Sholkamys (edited volume) Contestations: Dialogues on Womens Empowerment Issue 1: Islam
and Feminism
Laury Silvers (article) In the Book We have Left out Nothing: The Ethical Problem of the Existence of
Verse 4:34 in the Quran (NOTE: More of Laury Silvers scholarship can be accessed on her website as follows:
Books | Articles and Chapters
Amina Waduds Quran and Woman:Rereading the Sacred Text from a Womans Perspective
Mai Yamanis (edited volume) Feminism and Islam: Legal and Literary Perspectives