Inside the gender jihad:
Amina Wadud
Inside the gender jihad: Women's reform in islam/ Amina Wadud - Oxford OneWorld Pub. 2007 - xvii,286pg.: 23cm
note, index
Contents: Foreword / Professor Khaled Abou El Fadl --
Acknowledgments --
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? --
Notes --
Index.
Summary:
"In her 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."--Jacket.
9781851684632
Inside the gender jihad:-- gender jihad:--Women's reform in islam/
Feminism--Islam--Religious Aspects
Muslim women
Women in Islam
BP 134 / .W28 2007
Inside the gender jihad: Women's reform in islam/ Amina Wadud - Oxford OneWorld Pub. 2007 - xvii,286pg.: 23cm
note, index
Contents: Foreword / Professor Khaled Abou El Fadl --
Acknowledgments --
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? --
Notes --
Index.
Summary:
"In her 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."--Jacket.
9781851684632
Inside the gender jihad:-- gender jihad:--Women's reform in islam/
Feminism--Islam--Religious Aspects
Muslim women
Women in Islam
BP 134 / .W28 2007