11 - Studies of Religion - Muslim Attitudes to Issues: Gender rights and roles

muslim attitude gender

islam celibacy

islam marriage hadith

 islam homosexuality qur’an

women equality islam

qiwama

wilaya 

islam law women

islam “sexual desire” qur’an

women "human rights" islam

 "islamic law" women

"women's rights" islam 

"male guardianship" islam

islam "gender relations"

women justice (islam or muslim)

islam homosexuality (ijma or qiyas)

islam (contraception or “birth control” or “family planning”) jurist opinion

islam (contraception or “birth control” or “family planning”) (conservative or liberal)

"muslim family law" (women or gender)

"male authority" islam

islam (law or court) women

"Islamic legal tradition" "male authority"

(islam or muslim) attitude (gender or "gender rights" or "gender equality")

(qiwama or wilaya or "male guardianship")

"islamic law" (issue or debate or contentious or complex or controversy) gender

(islam or muslim) attitude (gender or "gender rights" or "gender equality" or "women's rights") site:.edu

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• The Moral Economy of Classical Islam: A FiqhiConomic Model. El-Sheikh, Salah The Muslim World. 98.1  (Jan 2008): 116-144.
   
• Changing Roles, Unchanging Perceptions and Institutions: Traditionalism and its Impact on Women and Globalization in Muslim Societies in Asia. Abdul Rahman, Noor Aisha. The Muslim World 97.3  (Jul 2007): 479-507.
   
• Feminism as Islamophobia: A review of misogyny charges against Islam. Hasan, Md Mahmudul. Intellectual Discourse 20.1  (2012): 55-78.
   
• Muslim women, middle class habitus, and modernity in Indonesia. Rinaldo, Rachel. Contemporary Islam 2.1  (Mar 2008): 23-39.
   
• Variations in the Sociology of Islam and Gender: A Multi-Level Analysis of Islam and Gender in Majority Muslim Contexts. Gonzalez, Alessandra L.. Baylor University, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2011.
   
• Refashioning Islam: elite women and piety in Bangladesh. Huq, Samia; Rashid, Sabina Faiz. Contemporary Islam 2.1  (Mar 2008): 7-22.
   
• "Believing Women" in Islam. Unreading Patriarchal Interpretations of the Qur'an. Smith, Jane I. The Muslim World 92.3/4  (Fall 2002): 481-483.
   
• Identity, Authority, and Activism: American Muslim Women Approach the Qur'an. Hammer, Juliane. The Muslim World 98.4  (Oct 2008): 443-464.
   
• Notions of Female Authority in Modern Shi'i Thought. Tajali, Mona. Religions 2.3  (2011): 449-468.
   
• Women Shaping Islam: Reading the Qur'an in Indonesia. Shipley, Heather. Sociology of Religion 69.3  (Fall 2008): 360-362.

• Seeking sanctuary in 'the age of disorder': women in contemporary Tablighi Jama'at. Amrullah, Eva F. Contemporary Islam 5.2  (Jul 2011): 135-160.

Musawah is a global movement for equality and justice in the Muslim family which was launched in Malaysia in 2009. These articles are based on exciting new feminist research that critically engages with the assumption of and challenges male authority from within the Muslim legal tradition.