Muslima Theology

Ednan Aslan is Chair of the Institute for Islamic Studies and Islamic Religious Education in the Centre for Teacher Education at the University of Vienna.Marcia Hermansen is Director of the Islamic World Studies program and Professor in the Theology Department at Loyola University Chicago.Elif Medeni is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Education at the University of Vienna.

• Contents: Marcia Hermansen: Introduction: The New Voices of Muslim Women Theologians Ednan Aslan: Early Community Politics and the Marginalization of Women in Islamic Intellectual History Zainab Alwani: Muslim Women as Religious Scholars: A Historical Survey Ndeye Adjar: Feminist Readings of the Quran: Social, Political, and Religious Implications Aysha Hidayatullah: Muslim Feminist Theology in the United States Riffat Hassan: Women and Mans Fall: A Quranic Theological Perspective Hatice Arpagu: The Position of Woman in the Creation: A Quranic Perspective Hidayet efkatli: Tuksal Misogynistic Reports in the Hadith Literature Muna Tatari: Gender Justice and Gender Jihd - Possibilities and Limits of Quranic Interpretation for Womens Liberation Celene Ayat Lizzio: Gendering Ritual: A Muslimas Reading of the Laws of Purity and Ritual Preclusion Carolyn Baugh: Ibn Taymiyyas Feminism? Imprisonment and the Divorce Fatwas Etin Anwar: Sexing the Prayer: The Politics of Ritual and Feminist Activism in Indonesia Rabha Al-Zeera: Violence Against Women in Quran 4:34: A Sacred Ordinance? Jerusha Tanner Lamptey: From Sexual Difference to Religious Difference: Toward a Muslima Theology of Religious Pluralism Debra Majeed: Resisting the Veil of Universalism: Muslim Womanist Philosophy as a Lens for Authentic Representations of African American Muslim Women Sadiyya Shaikh: In Search of al-Insn: Sufism, Islamic Law, and Gender.