Dr Amina Wadud is professor of Islamic Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University. She is author of the influential Qur'an and Woman: Rereading the Sacred Text from a Woman's Perspective.

• Foreword by Professor Khaled Abou El FadlAcknowledgments Introduction: Inside the Gender Jihad, Reform in Islam1 What’s in a Name?2 The Challenges of Teaching and Learning in the Creation of Muslim Women’s Studies3 Muslim Women’s Collectives, Organizations, and Islamic Reform4 A New Hajar Paradigm: Motherhood and Family5 Public Ritual Leadership and Gender Inclusiveness6 Qur’an, Gender, and Interpretive Possibilities7 Stories from the TrenchesConclusion: Why Fight the Gender Jihad? NotesIndex

"Seen as a pioneering feminist, her last book, Inside the Gender Jihad: Women's Reform in Islam (2006) was partly an experiment in autobiography, and included details of the threats to her life in New York."