Asma Lamrabet is the author of several books on the position of women in Islam, and has lectured widely on the topic. Her writings include Women in the Qur’an: An Emancipatory Reading (2016), and she received the Social Sciences Award in 2013 by the Arab Woman Organization.  Dr. Lamrabet was the Director of Studies at the Research Center on Women’s Issues in Islam (centre d'études féminines en Islam/ Rabita al muhammadia des Oulémas du Maroc) for ten years. She lives and works in Rabat, Morocco, her birthplace.  Muneera Salem-Murdock was the Millennium Challenge Corporation’s Resident Country Director in Morocco for 7 years and has served as Senior Development Policy Advisor to the U.S. Executive Director at the World Bank and Senior Policy Analyst at USAID. She has worked extensively in Africa and the Middle East and has lectured widely on a variety of topics. She is the author of Arabs and Nubians in New Halfa: A Study of Settlement and Irrigation (University of Utah Press, 1989), co-author of Les Barrages de la Controverse: le cas de la Vallée du Fleuve Sénégal (1994), editor of Anthropology and Development in North Africa and the Middle East (1990), and contributor to several volumes including Anthropological Approaches to Resettlement: Policy, Practice, and Theory (1993), and Lands at Risk in the Third World (1987).

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• Chapter 1  Introduction.- Chapter 2  Beyond the Problematic of “the Muslim Woman”.- Chapter 3  The Qur’ānic Revelation in Seventh Century Arabia.- Chapter 4  An Alternative Approach to the Qur’ān.- Chapter 5  The Creation of Humanity.- Chapter 6  The Construction of Human Civilization.- Chapter 7  Moral Integrity as an Evaluation Criteria.- Chapter 8  The Egalitarian Call of the Qur’ān.- Chapter 9 The Qur’ānic Ethic of the Marital Union.- Chapter 10  The Principles of Divorce in the Qur’ān.- Chapter 11 The Shared Responsibility of Men and Women.- Chapter 12  The Management of Public and Private Spheres.- Chapter 13  The Basic Verses on Inheritance.- Chapter 14  Foundations of Corporal Ethic.- Chapter 15  The Equality of In-Court Testimony.- Chapter 16  Why Is There a Lag?.- Chapter 17  What Alternative Possibilities?.- Chapter 18   Equality, the Time of a Revelation.