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Gender Issues in Spiritual Life & islam

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What Islam Really Says About Women | Alaa Murabit

Alaa Murabit's family moved from Canada to Libya when she was 15. Before, she’d felt equal to her brothers, but in this new environment she sensed big prohibitions on what she could accomplish.

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Women Are the Future of Islam

In this revelatory book, imam Sherin Khankan addresses urgent contemporary issues such as modern women in Islam, radical Islamic groups, Islamic divorce, and fundamentalism, and she describes her own personal journey as a female Muslim activist.

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Women in Islam

There is no singular role or experience for women in Islam. Muslims women hold a variety of positions in society generally, and take on different responsibilities and restrictions in religious settings.

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Inside Scandinavia's First Women-Only Mosque

The Danish capital Copenhagen is home to Scandinavia's first mosque run entirely by and for women. The Mariam mosque is headed by the feminist Sherin Khankan. Only women can be imams and take part in the Friday prayers.

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The Rise of the Imama: Women-Led Mosques Are Growing

Negative stereotypes abound of how women are treated under Islam. But there's a new movement of women-led mosques who are challenging this, and making both Muslims and non-Muslims think differently about the faith.

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Women strive for larger roles in male-dominated religions

Women have been elected heads of national governments on six continents. They have flown into space, served in elite combat units and won every category of Nobel Prize. The global #MeToo movement, in 15 months, has toppled a multitude of powerful men linked to sexual misconduct.

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Why amina wadud Led a Mixed-Gender Muslim Prayer

amina wadud, a scholar of Islam and co-founder of the group Sisters in Islam, explains why she led a mixed-gender Muslim prayer, during Chautauqua Institution's 2011 panel discussion, "Jewish, Christian and Muslim Women Seeking Clergy Equality," moderated by Moment Magazine's editor and publisher,...

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Inside the Gender Jihad: Women’s Reform in Islam

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.

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Hajar: Of the Desert

This story is coated with patriarchy, and so it is with some fascination that Hajar (biblical Hagar) configures so significantly in the Islamic telling of it.

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The Noble Struggle of amina wadud

On March 18, 2005, amina wadud shocked the Islamic world by leading a mixed-gender Friday prayer congregation in New York.

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