Windows of Faith : Muslim Women's Scholarship Activism in the United States

Introduction xi Gisela Webb Contributors xxi PART ONE Qur'anic/Theological Foundations Alternative Qur'anic Interpretation and the Status of Muslim Women 3(19) Amina Wadud Muslim Women's Islamic Higher Learning as a Human Right 22(29) Nimat Hafez Barazangi PART TWO Law An Introduction to Muslim Women's Rights 51(21) Azizah Y. Al-Hibri Women's Self-Identity in the Qur'an and Islamic Law 72(30) Maysam J. Al-Faruqi Her Honor 102(34) Asifa Quraishi The Scholar and the Fatwa 136(11) Aminah Beverly McCloud PART THREE Literature, Spirituality Braiding the Stories 147(25) Mohja Kahf Reading the Signs 172(25) Rabia Terri Harris PART FOUR Activism Striving for Muslim Women's Human Rights---Before and Beyond Beijing 197(29) Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons Is Family Planning Permitted by Islam? 226(33) Riffat Hassan Appendixes: A. Human Rights in the Qur'anic Perspective 241(8) Riffat Hassan B. A Partial List of Organizations for Muslim Women's Rights, Advocacy, and Higher Islamic Education in the United States 249(10) Kareema Altomare Glossary 259(8) Works Cited 267(14) Index 281