Inside the gender jihad : women's reform in Islam / [print]
Amina Wadud.
- Reprintedition. with corrections.
- Oxford : Oneworld, (c)2008..
- xvii, 286 pages ; 23 cm.
- Islam in the twenty-first century .
- Islam in the twenty-first century. .
Originally published 2006.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Foreword Introduction: Inside the gender jihad: reform in Islam -- 1. What's in a name? -- 2. The challenges of teaching and learning in the creation of Muslim women's studies -- 3. Muslim women's collectives, organizations, and Islamic reform -- 4. A new Hajar paradigm: motherhood and family -- 5. Public ritual leadership and gender inclusiveness -- 6. Qur'an, gender, and interpretive possibilities -- 7. Stories from the trenches -- Conclusion: Why fight the gender jihad? by Khaled Abou El Fadl --
"In her provocative new book, Inside the Gender Jihad, Amina Wadud brings a wealth of experience from the trenches of the jihad to make a passionate argument for gender inclusiveness in the Muslim world. Knitting together scrupulous scholarship with lessons drawn from her own experiences as a woman, she explores the array of issues facing Muslim women today, including social status, education, sexuality, and leadership"--Cover.
9781851684632
Women in Islam. Feminism--Religious aspects--Islam. Sex role--Religious aspects--Islam.