Interpretations of Islam
Are Human Rights Compatible with Islam? (web)
"Are Human Rights Compatible with Islam? The Issue of the Rights of Women in Muslim Communities" By Riffat Hassan, Ph.D. Essay on the Qur'anic 'ideal' of human rights especially in regard to women.
http://www.consultation.org/consultation/hmnrgtha.htm
Hijab
One woman's understanding of the Islamic dress code. (Revised 21/04/01)
Islam, Irigaray, and the Retrieval of Gender (web)
Abdal Hakim Murad's comparison of aspects of western discourses on feminism with concepts of the feminine within Islam.
http://ds.dial.pipex.com/masud/ISLAM/ahm/gender.htm
Marriage in Islam
Under revision.
Muslim Feminists and the Veil
Research paper discussing Muslim feminists' approaches to the issues surrounding women's veiling.
On the Position of Women in Islam and in Islamic Society
(web)
Article by Dr. Hassan al-Turabi with an introduction by Sean Gabb. Highly significant attempt to demonstrate the equality of women and men in Islam.
http://www.iol.ie/~afifi/BICNews/Personal/personal11.htm
Polygyny: A divine right or exception to the rule?
Paper looking at the conditions of permissibility of polygyny in Islam. (Revised 21/04/01)
Western Feminists, Muslim Women and the 'Veil' That Separates Them 
Research paper looking at how 'Western' feminists have discoursed about practices such as Muslim women's veiling.
Woman's Role in Contemporary Society (web)
Shamima Sheikh's paper on the rights and roles of women in Islam including historical accounts of Muslim women warriors, politicians, and vocal exercisers of their rights.
http://shams.za.org/role.htm
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Position Papers
Muslim Women's League Position Papers
Honor Killings (web)
Female Genital Mutilation (web)
Issues of Concern for Muslim Women (web)
Gender Equality in Islam (web)
An Islamic Perspective on Violence Against Women (web)
An Islamic Perspective on Sexuality (web)
Islamic Inheritance (web)
An Islamic Perspective on Women's Dress (web)
An Islamic Perspective Women in the Political System (web)
http://www.mwlusa.org
Social Degredation of Women - a crime and libel on Islam (web)
Originally a lecture given by esteemed translator of the Qur'an Marmaduke Pickthall in 1925, on the rights and position of Muslim women with particular reference to the cultural imposition of purdah.
http://muslim-canada.org/pickthall.htm
Women's Rights and Equality in Islam (web)
Discussion about difficulties encountered by advocating true Islamic liberation of Muslim women.
http://members.aol.com/_ht_a/yahyam/page19/equality.htm
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Political Reality
Afghanistan's Forgotten Women (web)
A commentary on abuses against Afghanistani women from the "Genders Online Journal"
http://www.genders.org/g27/g27_afw.html
Denying women access to the 'Main Space' -
A Betrayal of the Prophet (pbuh) (web)
Shamima Sheikh's article on how modern mosques suffer a betrayal of the Prophet's ideal community by ostracizing women.
http://shams.za.org/access.htm
Muslim woman and intellectual in 20th century Egyptian public debate. (web)
Paper by Lene Kofoed Rasmussen given at the fourth Nordic conference on Middle Eastern Studies (1998) asking "could the modem Muslim intellectual, inclined to reforms and education, yet taking Islam as a starting point, could this intellectual type be a woman?"
http://www.hf-fak.uib.no/smi/pao/kofoed.html
Muslim Women Reclaim Their Original Rights (web)
Informal essay discussing the lack of implementation of Muslim women's rights in patriarchal cultures.
http://members.aol.com/yahyam/page39/mwomen.htm
Polemics on the Veil in Egypt (web)
A survey of the polemics surrounding the abolition and introduction of the veil.
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Parthenon/3519/frames11.htm
Women & Islam - The Gender Struggle
in South Africa: The Ideological Struggle (web: offline as at 29/05/01.)
A talk discussing the struggle to grasp the existing controversial and conflicting perception of the status, position, worth and constitution of women in Islam.
http://shams.za.org/itppaper.htm
Women in Mosques (web)
A look at the marginalization some Muslim women encounter by being denied rightful equal access to mosques.
http://members.aol.com/_ht_a/yahyam/page36/womeninmosques.htm
Women and Religion (web: offline as at 29/05/01.)
A brief, unedited look at the controversial issue of women and their position in the practical manifestation of Islamic orthodoxy.
http://chief.anth.uconn.edu/classes/anth298_s98/Islam.htm
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Book Reviews
See the Maryams.Net Bookshop for book recommendations and ordering information.
A Manual on Rights of Women Under Islam (web)
Barbara Crossette's "New York Times" review of this grass-roots level manual for implementing women's rights.
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/womislam.htm
Feminism in Islam: Legal and Literary Perspectives (web)
Book review of a collection of articles edited by Mai Yamani. This book brings together renowned women researchers and academic historians, political scientists, lawyers, sociologists, social anthropologists and literary critics, who examine the phenomenon of feminism within the Islamic cultural framework.
http://endjinn.soas.ac.uk/Centres/Islamiclaw/Feminism_Intro.html
Leila Ahmed's Women and Gender in Islam (web)
Student working paper which discusses Leila Ahmed's seminal work in the area of gender studies in Islam.
http://www2.soc.hawaii.edu/css/dept/owr/Joanna.html
Women and Islam (web)
Synopses of books on women's studies and gender-related issues in Islam.
http:http://www.sufibooks.com/womens.html
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Other
A Collection of Verses Related to Women's Rights
A small collection of verses from the Qur'an and hadith that describe women's rights and show women acting in various positions of power.
Khatoon Network (web)
Khatoon is a word in the Urdu language which simply means woman. The Khatoon Network is a network of links especially for women.
http://www.geocities.com/anilazaidi/khatoonnetwork/index.html
Muslim Women's Homepage (web)
Conservative, but useful site for Muslim women with a wide variety of articles on issues that pertain to women in Islam; marriage; hijab; links to organisations; stories of famous Muslim women of the past and present and more.
http://www.jannah.org/sisters/
The United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women (web)
Information about the landmark conference held in Beijing, China - September 1995.
http://www.undp.org/fwcw/daw1.html
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