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“The Mosque in Morgantown” to air June 15 on PBS stations nationwide

10,000 Muslim Men Against Domestic Violence

Muslim Consultative Network

action, mae, statement

A Deobandi With A Difference: Waris Mazhari on the Imrana Affair

Yoginder Sikand

An Appeal for Tolerance Regarding Established Views on Women in Islam *

Abdur Rahman Muhammad

Articulating an American Voice of Islam and Justice: Answering Mukhtaran Mai

Battle Over Niqab

Eric Winkel

Believing Women in Islam (Asma Barlas)

Book Announcement: The Girl in the Tangerine Scarf: A Novel (Mohja Kahf)

Book Review: “Living Islam out Loud” (ed. Saleemah Abdul Ghafur)

Aisha Sarwari

BOOK REVIEW: Feminism beyond East and West – New Gender Talk and Practice in Global Islam (Ba

Yoginder Sikand

Book Review: Feminism Beyond East and West (Margot Badran)

Yoginder Sikand

Book Review: “Wanted—Equality and Justice in the Muslim Family”

Yoginder Sikand

gender

Born in the U.S.A : A New American Islam Proves Devotion and Women’s Liberation Do Mix

Miriam Udel Lambert

Bravo CAIR!: Better Late then Never - CAIR Revises American Muslim Policy on Women in Mosques

M. A. Muqtedar Khan

CAIR “Women-Friendly Mosques” Document Leaves Unanswered Questions

Shahed Amanullah

Challenges of Womens Space in Masjids

Abdul Malik Mujahid

Death By Culture?: How Not to Talk about Islam and Domestic Violence

Zareena Grewal

Developing a Discourse of Gender Justice in Islam

Yoginder Sikand

Divorce in Qur’an and Shari’ah

Asghar Ali Engineer

Domestic Violence and abuse in the Muslim community - Resource collection - updated 2/23/09

compiled by Sheila Musaji

Friday Prayers Led By Women

Dr. Aslam Abdullah

GENDER ISSUES - COLLOQUIUM: Toronto Woman Gives Part of Eid Khutbah

Shaikh Mohammed Nur Abdullah

GENDER ISSUES - Women in Islam - article collection

resource

GENDER ISSUES: Islamisation and its Impact on Democractic Governance and Women’s Rights in Islam: A

Zainah Anwar

GENDER ISSUES: MUSLIM WOMEN’S COURAGE AND VISION:

Amr Rasheed

GENDER ISSUES: The Times They Are A-Changin’: A Muslim Quest for Justice, Gender Equality, and Plur

Omid Safi

GENDER ISSUES: The Times They Are A-Changin’: A Muslim Quest for Justice, Gender Equality, and Plura

Omid Safi

GENDER ISSUES: Women in Islam and Muslim Society - Part I

Hasan al Turabi

GENDER ISSUES: Women in Islam and Muslim Society - Part II

Hassan al Turabi

Gender-based Exclusionism at a Muslim Student Association - Part I

Shabana Mir

Gender-Based Exclusionism at a Muslim Student Association - Part II

Shabana Mir

Gendercide? India’s population distortion

Ishtiaq Ahmed

Gendering the Spirit (Durre Ahmed)

Eric Winkel, Ph.D.

book review, gender, interfaith

In Recognition of Women

Khaled Abou El Fadl

Indian Muslim Women’s Group Denounces Darul Uloom Deoband’s Divorce Fatwa

Sheila Musaji

stupid fatwas

Interfaith Group Takes New Approach to Domestic Abuse

Rebecca Rosen Lum

Interview with Laleh Bakhtiar on The First English Translation of the Qur’an by an American Woman

Sheila Musaji

Interview with the Muslim Reform Thinker Amina Wadud: “The Koran Cannot Be Usurped”

Martina Sabra

interview

Interview With Ziba Mir Hosseini: Understanding Islamic Feminism

Yoginder Sikand

Muslim women, gender, Sharia, ijtihad

Interview: Zainah Anwar on Islam and Muslim Feminism

Yoginder Sikand

Sisters in Islam, Malaysia, Muslim women

Iran: Closing of Zanan, Equality at half mast

Margot Badran

Is One Offensive Cleric More Important Than 38 Reasonable Ones?

Firas Ahmad

islamophobia, media, propaganda, Sheik Taj Aldin al-Hilali, response, mae, extremists

Islamic Feminism Revisited

Margot Badran

Islamic Jurisprudence, ‘Civil’ Disobedience, and Woman-led Prayer

Laury Silvers

Islamic Response to Domestic Violence

ISNA

MAE

Islamic Shariah in the Western World

Asghar Ali Engineer

Listen to the Feminine

Jeremy Henzell-Thomas

Malaysian Women

Ishtiaq Ahmed

Maulana Wahiduddin Khan rips through traditional views about women in Islam

Yoginder Sikand

interview

Modesty and Niqab in America: Ahkam vs Maqasid, Ethics vs Law

Dr. Robert D. Crane

Muffled Voices: Socio-Cultural Impediments to Indian Muslim Women’s Struggles for Gender Justi

Yoginder Sikand

Muslim Woman in the 21st Century Forward or Backwards *

Amina Wadud-Muhsin

Muslimah Writers Alliance Joins in Petitioning Saudi Arabia for Reversal of Forced Divorce

Aishah Schwartz

lunatic fringe, salafi, wahhabi, Muslim extremists, gender

Muslimah Writers Alliance Welcomes Saudi Reversal in Al-Timani Forced Divorce Case

Aishah Schwartz, Director MWA

Saudi Arabia, gender issues, mae, lunatic fringe, salafi, wahhabi

MWA Call to Action in Support of Saudi Guardianship Reform & Release of Nathalie Morin - update 6/28

human rights, Aishah Schwartz, shariah, domestic abuse, gender, injustice, lunatic fringe, salafi, wahhabi

National Dialogue Launched on Women in Canadian Mosques

Muneeb Nasir

New Book: Feminism beyond East and West:New Gender Talk and Practice in Global Islam (Margot Badran

Pluralism and the Challenges to Gender Equality

Farish A. Noor

Polygamy and the Qur’an

Asghar Ali Engineer

President Carter’s Gender Manifesto: A Wake-up Call for Muslims in America

Dr. Robert D. Crane

Progressive Muslims: On Justice, Gender and Pluralism (Omid Safi)

books

Qur’an and Woman (Amina Wadud-Muhsin)

Qur’an and Women (Dr. Amina Wadud)

Farzan Hassan Shahid.

book review, gender, Qur’an

Qur’an, Hadith and Women

Asghar Ali Engineer

Revisiting Hagar, The Woman Who Named God

Charlotte Gordon

Abraham, interfaith, The Woman Who Named God: Abraham’s Dilemma and the Birth of Three Faiths

Reviving a Tradition: Muslim Women as Religious Authorities

Yoginder Sikand

Rites and Rights: the Mosque Movement From Mecca to Main Street

Margot Badran

Saudi Arabia and Child Brides, A Disgrace and an Insult to Islam

Sheila Musaji

gender issues, human rights, women in Islam, lunatic fringe, salafi, wahhabi

Saudis in denial over scope of violence against women and children

Sabria Jawhar

domestic violence, lunatic fringe, salafi, wahhabi, domestic abuse

Scarf versus Disappeared - Media Double Standards - updated 5/9/2011

Sheila Musaji

Israel, double standards, extremism, Robert Spencer, gender issues, CAIR, doctored photo, Hilary Clinton, Jewish extremists, Hasidic newspaper

Sharia, Fatwas and Women’s Rights

Asghar Ali Engineer

Darul Uloom, Deoband, responses, stupid fatwas

Shattering the idol of spiritual patriarchy: Towards a gender-fair notion of prayer in Islam

Omid Safi

Shock and Awe in the First Intifada of American Gender Insurgency: Paradigmatic, Strategic, and Lega

Dr. Robert D. Crane

Spurning the Stereotype: Indias Largest English Islamic MagazineҒs Woman Editor

Yoginder Sikand

Tao of Islam (Sachiko Murata)

books

That Veil Thing

Sumbul Ali-Karamali

The BMMA’s Muslim Marriage Contract: Championing Women’s Rights in the Absence of Legal

Yoginder Sikand

nikah, gender

The Dynamics of Male-Female Relationships: A Contemporary Analysis (Qur’an 4:34) *

Amina Wadud-Muhsin

The Musawah network: Claiming back Islam’s revolutionary spirit

Nadira Artyk

The Tao of Islam (Sachiko Murata)

The Ultimate Sexism: Gender Specific Metaphysics

Dr. Robert D. Crane

The Veil and the Male Elite (Fatima Mernissi)

The Warriors of Gender Intifada: Where Are They Now?

Dr. Robert D. Crane

women leading prayer, mosque in morgantown, gender

U.S. Muslim Women Fight for Power

Aisha Gawad

Unveiling Deoband’s Fatwas on Women

Yoginder Sikand

stupid fatwas

Waging Culture Wars on Women’s Bodies

Asma Afsaruddin

burqa, Muslim women, gender, French burqa ban

Waking Up to Gender Justice

Nazry Bahrawi

Who’s afraid of (Muslim) women?

Rev. Frank Julian Gelli

hijab

Why Codification of Muslim Personal Law in India?

women, gender

Why violence against women is a men’s issue

Irfan Yusuf

Wife beaters set the tone as backward Imams threaten to overwhelm 21st Century Muslims

Mona Eltahawy

Qur’an 4:34, domestic violence

WISE Calls for End to Harmful and Un-Islamic Practice of Female Genital Mutilation

Women’s Islamic Initiative in Spirituality and Equality (WISE)

Woman Half-the-Man?: Crisis of Male Epistemology in Islamic Jurisprudence

Dr. Abdulaziz Sachedina

Woman in Islam (B. Aisha Lemu)

Woman in Shari’ah (Abdur Rahman I. Do)

Woman judges and Sharia

Asghar Ali Engineer

Women and Gender in Islam (Leila Ahmed)

Women and Minorities

Naeem Shakir

Women and the Masjid between Two Extremes

Louay M. Safi

Women of Sufism (Camille Adams Helminski)

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In the name of God,The Compassionate, The Merciful

Oh mankind! We created you from a single (pair) of a male and a female, and made you into nations and tribes, that you may know each other (Not that you may despise each other). 49;13

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