Qur’anic Feminism: The Makers of Textual Meaning

By Abdennur Prado Oxford, October 17th 2008 Bismil-lahi ar-Rahmani ar-Rahim I have entitled this lecture ‘Qur’anic feminism: the makers of textual meaning’. I’m going to defend the centrality of Qur’anic revelation in Islamic feminism, in a radical sense. Not only as a text that has been revealed...

Islamic feminism: what’s in a name?

Islamic feminism is on the whole more radical than Muslims’ secular feminisms, argues Margot Badran Appeared in Al-Ahram Weekly Online (17 – 23 January 2002 – Issue No.569) What’s in a name? What’s behind a name? What is Islamic feminism? Let me offer a concise definition: it...

The Path Towards Islamic Feminism

by Yaratullah Monturol For more than fourteen centuries we Muslim women have had a privileged status… While Western women awakened slowly, creating a climate of social awareness, in the Islamic world we have been on the defensive arguing a complete “ethical code” of principles, taking the...