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Book Review: “Men in Charge?: Rethinking Authority in Muslim Legal Tradition”

Posted by Guest Contributor on 29 Feb 2016 / 0 Comments

This post was originally written by Shehnaz Haqqani, and originally published at her blog, Freedom from the Forbidden. A slightly shorter version of the review was published in the American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences, vol. 33, Issue number 1, Winter 2016. It is reposted here with permission from the editor. At a time when […]

Visiting the Hijab…Again

Posted by Guest Contributor on 20 Oct 2009 / 0 Comments

This was written by Farah Banihali and originally published at Nuseiba. Last month a forum was held at the Adelaide Festival of Ideas focusing on Islam and feminism. Called “Beyond the Veil: Islam and Feminism”, it involved Dr. Gary Bouma, a sociology academic at Monash University; Zainah Anwar, founder of Malaysian group Sisters in Islam […]