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Home / Society / Religion and Spirituality / Islam / Social Aspects of Islam / Women in Islam / Rights and Equality
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- Anisah David - The homepage and biographical information of public speaker, South Dakotan and Muslim American, Anisah David. A self described Muslim American Feminist, this speaker and author challenges Americans with their stereotypes of Muslims and Islam.
www.angelfire.com/sd/AnisahDavid
- Beacon of Women's Emancipation - Chapter of the book "Women, Islam and Equality" that looks at the historical establishment of women's rights by Islam.
www.iran-e-azad.org/english/book_on_women/chapter3.html
- Denying Women Access - Paper discussing how modern mosques suffer a betrayal of the Prophet's ideal community by ostracizing women.
shams.za.org/access.htm
- Gender Equality and Justice in Islam - Academic paper by Dr. Riffat Hassan examining the argument for gender equality.
www.religiousconsultation.org/hassan.htm
- Gender Equality in Islam - Paper arguing that spiritual equality between men and women is not limited to purely spiritual, religious issues, but is the basis for equality in all temporal aspects of human endeavor.
www.mwlusa.org/pub_gender.html
- Gender Equity in Islam - Jamal Badawi's paper that discusses the roles of women and men from the perspective of gender complimentarity.
www.iad.org/books/GEI.html
- Haj and Freedom - Salma Said's article demonstrating the difference between the Prophet's concept of women's hajj and modern Saudi restrictions.
mandla.co.za/al-qalam/feb97/hajand.htm
- Human Rights and Islam - Riffat Hassan argues issues regarding the rights of women in the Muslim world.
www.consultation.org/consultation/hmnrgtha.htm
- Islam and Gender - Dr Mohammad Omar Farooq's opinion pieces, including on the contribution of Muslim women in history, a resolution on the issue of wife-beating and a call for women scholars.
www.globalwebpost.com/farooqm/writings/gender/default.html
- Islam Rethought - Online publication of Dr Ausaf Ali's work on gender, sexuality, and marriage in Islam with particular focus on the tensions between traditionalist and modernist views within lived Islam.
www.msnusers.com/AusafAli/files/Ausaf_Ali/Islam_Rethought.html
- Islam: From Patriarchy to Feminism - Zeeshan Hasan's paper that briefly traces the development of patriarchy within religion so as to address the concept of women's rights in Islam.
www.shobak.org/islam/women.html
- Islamic Traditions and the Feminist Movement - Paper by Dr Lois Lamya' al Faruqi looking at Muslim social, psychological, and economic traditions and how feminism is received.
members.lycos.co.uk/Shax2/islam/feminism.html
- Legitimate Mixing Between Men and Women - A discussion on issues surrounding the legitimacy of social intercourse between men and women in the Muslim world.
www.witness-pioneer.org/vil/Books/Q_WI/women_men.htm
- Marriage Contracts - Article on the growing trend in South Africa for Muslims to draw up marriage contracts.
mandla.co.za/al-qalam/jan97/couples.htm
- Maryams.Net - Devoted to encouraging Muslim women and supporters of Muslim women to arise and reinterpret shari'a so that the Muslim world might achieve the essential Qur'anic spirit of egalitarianism and equality envisioned by the Prophet of Islam.
www.maryams.net
- Muslim Women's Rights - Informal essay discussing the lack of implementation of Muslim women's rights in patriarchal cultures.
members.aol.com/yahyam/page39/mwomen.htm
- Rights and Equality in Islam - Discussion about difficulties encountered by advocating true Islamic liberation of Muslim women.
members.aol.com/_ht_a/yahyam/page19/equality.htm
- Social Degradation of Women - Essay on the rights of women in Islam authored by famed English convert to Islam and translator of the Qur'an, Marmaduke Pickthall.
muslim-canada.org/pickthall.htm
- The Shroud Over Algeria - Rod Skilbeck's academic article discussing fear tactics around both veiling and unveiling as part of militant political terrorism.
www.netspace.net.au/~rod/alg/shroud.htm
- The Voice of a Woman in Islam - Dr Yusuf al-Qaradawi argues that the silencing of the Muslim woman's voice is not authentic to Islam.
members.lycos.co.uk/Shax2/islam/qaradawi.html
- To Separate Fact From Fiction - Bulleted list of the status of women in Islam.
www.uh.edu/campus/msa/women/intro1.html
- Women and Qur'an - A talk discussing the struggle to grasp the existing controversial and conflicting perception of the status, position, worth and constitution of women in Islam.
shams.za.org/itppaper.htm
- Women in Mosques - A look at the marginalization some Muslim women encounter by being denied rightful equal access to mosques.
members.aol.com/_ht_a/yahyam/page36/womeninmosques.htm
- Women's Role in Contemporary Society - Shamima Sheikh's paper on the rights and roles of women in Islam including historical accounts of Muslim women warriors, politicians, and vocal exercisers of their rights.
shams.za.org/role.htm
- Islam, Irigaray, and the Retrieval of Gender - Abdal Hakim Murad's comparison of aspects of western discourses on feminism with concepts of the feminine within Islam.
www.islamamerica.org/articles.cfm/article_id/33
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