Sophia Rose Arjana is assistant professor of religious studies at Western Kentucky University.

• Foreword- Wajahat AliIntroduction1. Muslim Women in Western Popular Culture2. The Muslim Body, Veiling, and Contestations of Islam3. Ms. Marvel, Islam, and America4. Burka Avenger and the Subversive Veil5. Qahera, Raat, Bloody Nasreen, and the Vigilante SuperheroConclusion: Islamic Feminism and Muslim Chivalry

Sophia Arjana’s book is my ideal balance of a popular-academic book. Academics are perpetually in search of that book which will be informative and scholarly as well as creative and fun: professor, that book has arrived. Using a refreshingly global, multi-stranded framework of religious studies, gender and women’s studies, cultural studies, and media studies, Dr. Arjana investigates the subversive up-ending of cultural power dynamics through the lens of visual media. Comic book superheroes are the perfect champions to interrogate outdated, wooden status quo of dominant majority cultures. And Muslim women superheroes are ideal protagonists to right wrongs and smash hegemonic stereotypes. Arjana shows how they battle for new paradigms like the heroes of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, fight-dancing atop towering yet teetering cultural tropes.

Sophia Rose Arjana is assistant professor of religious studies at Western Kentucky University.

• Foreword- Wajahat AliIntroduction1. Muslim Women in Western Popular Culture2. The Muslim Body, Veiling, and Contestations of Islam3. Ms. Marvel, Islam, and America4. Burka Avenger and the Subversive Veil5. Qahera, Raat, Bloody Nasreen, and the Vigilante SuperheroConclusion: Islamic Feminism and Muslim Chivalry

Sophia Arjana’s book is my ideal balance of a popular-academic book. Academics are perpetually in search of that book which will be informative and scholarly as well as creative and fun: professor, that book has arrived. Using a refreshingly global, multi-stranded framework of religious studies, gender and women’s studies, cultural studies, and media studies, Dr. Arjana investigates the subversive up-ending of cultural power dynamics through the lens of visual media. Comic book superheroes are the perfect champions to interrogate outdated, wooden status quo of dominant majority cultures. And Muslim women superheroes are ideal protagonists to right wrongs and smash hegemonic stereotypes. Arjana shows how they battle for new paradigms like the heroes of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, fight-dancing atop towering yet teetering cultural tropes.

Sophia Rose Arjana is assistant professor of religious studies at Western Kentucky University.

• Foreword- Wajahat AliIntroduction1. Muslim Women in Western Popular Culture2. The Muslim Body, Veiling, and Contestations of Islam3. Ms. Marvel, Islam, and America4. Burka Avenger and the Subversive Veil5. Qahera, Raat, Bloody Nasreen, and the Vigilante SuperheroConclusion: Islamic Feminism and Muslim Chivalry

Sophia Arjana’s book is my ideal balance of a popular-academic book. Academics are perpetually in search of that book which will be informative and scholarly as well as creative and fun: professor, that book has arrived. Using a refreshingly global, multi-stranded framework of religious studies, gender and women’s studies, cultural studies, and media studies, Dr. Arjana investigates the subversive up-ending of cultural power dynamics through the lens of visual media. Comic book superheroes are the perfect champions to interrogate outdated, wooden status quo of dominant majority cultures. And Muslim women superheroes are ideal protagonists to right wrongs and smash hegemonic stereotypes. Arjana shows how they battle for new paradigms like the heroes of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, fight-dancing atop towering yet teetering cultural tropes.