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Feminism & Islam
1.
"Believing Women" in Islam: Unreading Patriarchal Interpretations of the Qur'an
by:
Asma Barlas
4.26 avg rating — 1,386 ratings
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A Blessed Olive Tree: A Spiritual Journey in Twenty Short Stories
by:
Zain Hashmi
4.01 avg rating — 156 ratings
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Women and Gender in Islam
by:
Leila Ahmed
4.10 avg rating — 1,724 ratings
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A Quiet Revolution: The Veil's Resurgence, from the Middle East to America
by:
Leila Ahmed
3.98 avg rating — 399 ratings
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Do Muslim Women Need Saving?
by:
Lila Abu-Lughod
3.95 avg rating — 820 ratings
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Feminist Edges of the Qur'an
by:
Aysha A. Hidayatullah
3.97 avg rating — 111 ratings
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The Veil and the Male Elite: A Feminist Interpretation of Women's Rights in Islam
by:
Fatema Mernissi
3.96 avg rating — 1,286 ratings
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Feminism and Islam: Legal and Literary Perspectives
by:
Mai Yamani
4.18 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Harem Years: The Memoirs of an Egyptian Feminist, 1879-1924
by:
Huda Shaarawi هدى شعراوي
3.67 avg rating — 411 ratings
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Feminists, Islam, and Nation
by:
Margot Badran
3.78 avg rating — 40 ratings
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Voices of Resistance: Muslim Women on War, Faith and Sexuality
by:
Sarah Husain
4.12 avg rating — 67 ratings
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Feminism in Islam: Secular and Religious Convergences
by:
Margot Badran
3.74 avg rating — 57 ratings
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Arab and Arab American Feminisms: Gender, Violence, and Belonging
by:
Rabab Abdulhadi
4.47 avg rating — 62 ratings
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Women and the Transmission of Religious Knowledge in Islam
by:
Asma Sayeed
4.05 avg rating — 83 ratings
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Feminism and Islamic Fundamentalism: The Limits of Postmodern Analysis
by:
Haideh Moghissi
3.90 avg rating — 48 ratings
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It's Not About the Burqa
by:
Mariam Khan
4.20 avg rating — 7,692 ratings
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Sufi Narratives of Intimacy: Ibn 'Arabī, Gender, and Sexuality
by:
Sadiyya Shaikh
4.27 avg rating — 56 ratings
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The Hidden Face of Eve: Women in the Arab World
by:
Nawal El Saadawi
4.01 avg rating — 1,764 ratings
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Muhammad, the World-Changer: An Intimate Portrait
by:
Mohamad Jebara
4.48 avg rating — 566 ratings
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The Things I Would Tell You: British Muslim Women Write
by:
Sabrina Mahfouz
3.71 avg rating — 1,374 ratings
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Women in the Qurʼan : An Emancipatory Reading
by:
Asma Lamrabet
3.85 avg rating — 259 ratings
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Opening the Gates: An Anthology of Arab Feminist Writing
by:
Margot Badran
4.21 avg rating — 106 ratings
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Woman's Identity and the Qur'an: A New Reading
by:
Nimat Hafez Barazangi
4.30 avg rating — 10 ratings
24.
Islam and Democracy: Fear of the Modern World
by:
Fatema Mernissi
3.79 avg rating — 195 ratings
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Islamic Feminism in Kuwait: The Politics and Paradoxes
by:
Alessandra L. González
3.50 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Daughter of Persia: A Woman's Journey from Her Father's Harem Through the Islamic Revolution
by:
Sattareh Farman Farmaian
4.13 avg rating — 1,900 ratings
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Qur'an and Woman: Rereading the Sacred Text from a Woman's Perspective
by:
Amina Wadud
4.23 avg rating — 2,312 ratings
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Muslim Women Speak: Of Dreams and Shackles
by:
Ghazala Jamil
4.12 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Men in Charge?: Rethinking Authority in Muslim Legal Tradition
by:
Ziba Mir-Hosseini
4.07 avg rating — 72 ratings
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The Lover (The Sufi Mysteries #1)
by:
Laury Silvers
4.06 avg rating — 185 ratings
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The Female Voice in Sufi Ritual: Devotional Practices of Pakistan and India
by:
Shemeem Burney Abbas
4.10 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Voices and Veils: Feminism and Islam in French Women's Writing and Activism (Research Monographs in French Studies)
by:
Anna Kemp
4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Being Muslim: A Cultural History of Women of Color in American Islam
by:
Sylvia Chan-Malik
4.31 avg rating — 29 ratings
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Women in Islam: From Medieval to Modern Times
by:
Wiebke Walther
3.76 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Love, InshAllah: The Secret Love Lives of American Muslim Women
by:
Nura Maznavi
3.84 avg rating — 1,810 ratings
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In Search of Islamic Feminism: One Woman's Global Journey
by:
Elizabeth Warnock Fernea
3.77 avg rating — 137 ratings
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Remaking Women: Feminism and Modernity in the Middle East
by:
Lila Abu-Lughod
3.98 avg rating — 117 ratings
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Casting off the Veil: The Life of Huda Shaarawi, Egypt's First Feminist
by:
Sania Sharawi Lanfranchi
4.21 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Illegal Citizens: Queer Lives in the Muslim World
by:
Afdhere Jama
4.06 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Faith and Freedom: Women’s Human Rights in the Muslim World
by:
Mahnaz Afkhami
4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Homosexuality in Islam: Critical Reflection on Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Muslims
by:
Scott Siraj al-Haqq Kugle
3.94 avg rating — 222 ratings
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Islamic Fundamentalism, Feminism, and Gender Inequality in Iran Under Khomeini
by:
Masoud Kazemzadeh
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir
by:
Samra Habib
4.16 avg rating — 18,851 ratings
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Inside The Gender Jihad: Women's Reform in Islam
by:
Amina Wadud
3.80 avg rating — 163 ratings
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Sultana's Dream: A Feminist Utopia and Selections from The Secluded Ones
by:
Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain
3.95 avg rating — 471 ratings
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Interpreting Islam, Modernity, and Women’s Rights in Pakistan
by:
Anita M. Weiss
3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Gender, Sexuality and Feminism in Pakistani Urdu Writing
by:
Amina Yaqin
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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We Sinful Women : Contemporary Feminist Urdu Poetry
by:
Rukhsana Ahmad
4.35 avg rating — 69 ratings