Inside the Gender Jihad: Women's Reform in Islam

by Amina Wadud

Overview

A world-renowned professor of Islamic studies, Amina Wadud has long been at the forefront of what she calls the 'gender jihad, ' the struggle for justice for women within the global Islamic community. In 2005, she made international headlines when she helped to promote new traditions by leading the Muslim Friday prayer in New York City, provoking a firestorm of media controversy and kindling charges of blasphemy among conservative Muslims worldwide. In this provocative book, Inside the Gender Jihad, 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. A major contribution to the debate on women and Islam, Amina Wadud's vision for changing the status of women within Islam is both revolutionary and urgent

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781851684632
Publisher:	Oneworld Publications
Publication date:	06/01/2006
Series:	Islam in the Twenty-First Century
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	5.75(w) x 8.85(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

Foreword by 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

Editorial Reviews

Readers of Inside the Gender Jihad will be taken on a truly thrilling journey - not just through the problems that confront Muslims today, or the many gender injustices that plague contemporary articulations of the Islamic faith, but also through the many forms of intolerable oppression, which have become interminable causes of human suffering in our world.-- "Khaled Abou El Fadl"

Seen as a pioneering feminist, her last book, Inside the Gender Jihad: Women's Reform in Islam (2006) was partly an experiment in autobiography, and included details of the threats to her life in New York.-- "The Independent"

From the Publisher

"Readers of Inside the Gender Jihad will be taken on a truly thrilling journey - not just through the problems that confront Muslims today, or the many gender injustices that plague contemporary articulations of the Islamic faith, but also through the many forms of intolerable oppression, which have become interminable causes of human suffering in our world."

Khaled Abou El Fadl

"Seen as a pioneering feminist, her last book, Inside the Gender Jihad: Women's Reform in Islam (2006) was partly an experiment in autobiography, and included details of the threats to her life in New York."

The Independent