Resources

New book explores gender and equality in Muslim family lawBy Musawah

A collection of essays exploring gender and equality in Islam is launched by a panel of distinguished thinkers at SOAS, University of London on Saturday 27 April.

Moving the conversation forward on Muslim women's rights

By Sheherazade Jaffari

'Will I Get My Dues... Before I Die?'

Harm to Women from Bangladesh's Discriminatory Laws on Marriage, Separation, and Divorce

by Aruna Kashyap of the Women's Rights Division, Human Rights Watch (September 2012)

The Islamist Ascension and WomenBy Musawah

By Hatoon Ajwad Al-Fassi

It is clear that there is a crisis between Islamist parties and women. Of course there are many women who are members and supporters of these parties. But there are also other millions of women who feel that the future is not safe under the rule of these forces that monopolise religion and speak in its name.

Feminist voices in Islam: Promise and potential

by Ziba Mir-Hosseini

Religion is back in public space, and the thesis that modernization means the privatization of religion has been seriously questioned. Some religious and feminist dogmas need re-examination. What do ‘secular’ or ‘religious’ or ‘feminist’ mean in today’s contexts?

Video: The Potential and Promise of Feminist Voices in Islam

In this lecture at Barnard College, New York, member of the initial Musawah Planning Committee (founders) and member of the current Musawah International Advisory Group, Dr Ziba Mir-Hosseini, draws on Musawah as one example of exploring the Islamic feminist movement's potential for changing the terms of debates over Islam and gender, arguing that the real battle is between patriarchy and despot

Review: 'Marriage and Slavery in Early Islam'By Musawah

Review of Kecia Ali's 'Marriage and Slavery in Early Islam' (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2010. Pp. viii + 262, $39.95.)

By Ziba Mir-Hosseini

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Gender in the Middle East: Islam, State, Agency

This paper, by Mounira M. Charrad, offers a critical analysis of the scholarship on issues that constitute the core of the intellectual discourse on gender in the Middle East.