INTA203: Women in Islam: Featured Books

Through extensive analysis of Quranic text, Wadud applies a feminist reading of the Quran and concludes the Quran promotes egalitarianism and equality of women

Asma Barlas applies historical analysis and argues the Quran confirms the equality of the sexes.

Asma Sayeed's book explores the history of women as religious scholars from the first decades of Islam through the early Ottoman period (7th to 17th c.)

In Paradise Beneath Her Feet , Isobel Coleman shows how Muslim women and men are fighting back with progressive interpretations of Islam to support women's rights in a growing movement of Islamic feminism.

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Examines the notion of identity and its construction across a variety of international Muslim contexts