Inside The Gender Jihad: Women's Reform in Islam

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Oneworld Publications, Oct 1, 2013 - Religion - 325 pages
In this engaging study, Dr Amina Wadud, an Afro-American Muslim herself, introduces the feminist movement in Islam and delves into its challenges, its textual foundations in the Qur'an and its achievements. Beginning with her own place in the effort for greater justice for women in Islam, Wadud goes on tackle a number of pertinent issues, including the state of Muslim women's studies as a discipline in mainstream academia and the role of Muslim women in the domestic space.

About the author (2013)

Dr Amina Wadud is professor of Islamic Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University. She is author of the influential Qur'an and Woman: Rereading the Sacred Text from a Woman's Perspective.

Bibliographic information

TitleInside The Gender Jihad: Women's Reform in Islam
Islam in the Twenty-First Century
AuthorAmina Wadud
PublisherOneworld Publications, 2013
ISBN178074451X, 9781780744513
Length325 pages
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Religion / Islam / General
  
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