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WOMEN IN ISLAM ISSUE 6 (2023)

Contents include:

  • The Politics of Shari’ah and Gender in Somaliland
  • Muslim Women in the Spotlight of Ethiopia’s Elections
  • The Hijab Controversy: Secularism and Islam in Europe
  • Period Checks: the Policing of Prayer in Malaysia
  • What makes women resist violent extremism in Mali and Niger?
  • Is Mahr a Gift or a Bride Price?
ISSUE 6 ENGLISH
ISSUE 6 ARABIC
Issue6 ARA

WOMEN IN ISLAM ISSUE 5 (2021)

Contents include:
  • Ani Zonneveld: The Female Imam
  • Why Islamic Feminism? Why Now?
  • Forced Marriage: Sudan’s Graveyard for Girls
  • Praying in Public Spaces: The Real Challenge for Pakistani Women
  • A Woman’s Place is in the Resistance
  • From the Personal to the Political: The Struggle of Sudanese Women in Politics
ISSUE 5 ENGLISH
ISSUE 5 ARABIC

WOMEN IN ISLAM ISSUE 4 (2019)

Contents include:
  • Men in Charge? Rethinking Authority in Muslim Legal Tradition
  • A young Somali woman’s journey to becoming a mechanic
  • Women’s Sexuality in Islam: an unjustified taboo
  • Why do women marry into Boko Haram?
  • Cycling on the road to Equality: Women Cyclists in Sudan
  • Women and Islam in contemporary Indonesia
ISSUE 4 ENGLISH
ISSUE 4 ARABIC

WOMEN IN ISLAM ISSUE 3 (2017)

Contents include:
  • Choosing Engagement over Retreat: Ziba Mir-Hosseini
  • Two Wives, One Man: the Struggle of being a Co-Wife
  • Conversation with Novelist Leila Aboulela
  • War and State Collapse in Somalia: Implications for Men
  • Women of Sufism: a Hidden Treasure
  • Coerced or Committed? Boko Haram’s Female Suicide Bombers
ISSUE 3 ENGLISH
ISSUE 3 ARABIC

WOMEN IN ISLAM ISSUE 2 (2015)

Contents include:
  • Awadiya Abbas: a Life’s Work for Women’s Economic Rights in Sudan
  • Open Letter: “I am Christian Sudanese”
  • Matriarchy and Islam? Yes: Religion and Culture in Western Sumatra
  • Unlawful Law: Sudan’s Public Order Law, dissected
  • What does Islam have to do with it? FGM in the Horn of Africa
ISSUE 2 ENGLISH
ISSUE 2 ARABIC

WOMEN IN ISLAM ISSUE 1 (2014)

Contents include:
  • Introducing Amina Wadud
  • ‘I want to be President’: an Afghan woman raises her voice
  • Muslim like my grandmother: a Sudanese role model
  • Defending my wife: one Somali man’s stand on violence against women
  • My life with and without hijab
ISSUE 1 ENGLISH
ISSUE 1 ARABIC