The Oxford Handbook of Islam and Women

Asma Afsaruddin is Class of 1950 Herman B. Wells Endowed Professor and Professor of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures in the Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington. She is the author and editor of eight books, including The First Muslims: History and Memory (2008); her award-winning Striving in the Path of God: Jihad and Martyrdom in Islamic Thought (OUP, 2013); Contemporary Issues in Islam (2015); and Jihad: What Everyone Needs to Know (OUP, 2022). She was named a Carnegie Scholar in 2005 and was inducted into the Johns Hopkins Society of Scholars in 2019.

The Oxford Handbook of Islam and Women presents a timely and rich contribution that will leave a lasting impact on scholars and teachers in multiple disciplines connected to the study of religion, Islam, and women.

• IntroductionAsma Afsaruddin Foundational Texts and Their InterpretationsChapter 1: The Qur'an and WomanHibba AbugideriChapter 2: Classical Exegeses of Qur'anic Verses concerning WomenHadia MubarakChapter 3: Women in the Hadith LiteratureFeryal SalemChapter 4: Modern Rereadings of the Qur'an through a Gendered LensAsma AfsaruddinChapter 5: Modern Rereadings of Hadith through a Gendered LensKhaled Abou El Fadl Women and Islamic LawChapter 6: Women's Rights and Duties in Classical Legal LiteratureMariam SheibaniChapter 7: Status of Women in Modern Family and Personal LawSohaira SiddiquiChapter 8: Modern Rereadings of Classical Legal Texts on WomenNatana DeLong Bas Deciphering Women's Lives: Women in History and TextsChapter 9: Early Muslim Women as Moral Paragons in the Classical LiteratureYasmin AminChapter 10: Women in Shi'i Islam as Moral ExemplarsMaria DakakeChapter 11: Women as Transmitters of KnowledgeAsma SayeedChapter 12: Muslim Women and Devotional LifeZahra Ayubi and Iman AbdoulkarimChapter 13: Women as Littérateurs in the Premodern PeriodSamer AliChapter 14: Women as Economic Actors in the Pre-Modern Islamic WorldAmira Sonbol Women's Lived Realities and their Religious and Social Activism in the Modern PeriodChapter 15: Women in the Mosque : Contesting Public Space and Religious AuthorityMarion Katz Chapter 16: Negotiating Motherhood, Religion, and Modern Lived RealitiesMargaret PappanoChapter 17: Women as Modern Heads-of-StateTamara SonnChapter 18: Women's Religious and Social Activism in Syrian, Lebanon, and PalestineElizabeth BrownsonChapter 19: Women's Religious and Social Activism in Egypt and North AfricaNermin AllamChapter 20: Women's Religious and Social Activism in IranSeema GolestanehChapter 21: Women's Religious and Social Activism in TurkeyChiara MaritatoChapter 22: Women's Religious and Social Activism in South AsiaElora Shehabuddin Chapter 23: Women's Religious and Social Activism in Southeast AsiaNelly van Doorn-HarderChapter 24: Muslim Women's Religious and Social Activism in ChinaMaria Jaschok and Man KeChapter 25: Muslim Women's Religious and Social Activism in South AfricaNina HoelChapter 26: Muslim Women's Religious and Social Activism in North AmericaJuliane HammerChapter 27: Muslim Women's Religious and Social Activism in western EuropeJeanette JouiliChapter 28: Women's Religious and Social Activism in Saudi Arabia and the GulfAlainna Liloia Modern Narratives of the Gendered Self: Women Writing about WomenChapter 29: Modern Representations of the Wives of the ProphetRuqayya KhanChapter 30: An Overview of Modern and Contemporary Muslim Feminist LiteratureMiriam Cooke Islam, Women, and the Global Public ArenaChapter 31: Women's Sartorial Agency: The History and Politics of VeilingAnna PielaChapter 32: Muslim Women as a Cultural Trope: Global Discourses and the Politics of VictimhoodKatherine Bullock Index