The Oxford Handbook of Islam and Women

A. Introduction / Asma Afsaruddin -- B. Foundational Texts and Their Interpretations: 1. The Qur'ān and Woman / Hibba Abugideri -- 2. Classical Exegeses of Qur'ānic Verses concerning Women / Hadia Mubarak -- 3. Women in the Hadīth Literature / Feryal Salem -- 4. Modern Rereadings of the Qur'ān through a Gendered Lens / Asma Afsaruddin -- 5. Modern Rereadings of Hadīth through a Gendered Lens / Khaled Abou El Fadl -- C. Women and Islamic Law: 6. Marriage, Divorce, and Inheritance in in Classical Islamic Law and Premodern Practice / Mariam Sheibani -- 7. Status of Muslim Women in Modern Family and Personal Law / Sohaira Siddiqui -- 8. Women's Rights and Duties in Classical Legal Texts: Modern Rereadings / Natana DeLong Bas -- D. Deciphering Women's Lives: Women in History and Texts: 9. Early Muslim Women as Moral Paragons in the Classical Literature / Yasmin Amin -- 10. Women in Shīʻī Islam as Moral Exemplars / Maria Dakake -- 11. Women as Transmitters of Knowledge / Asma Sayeed -- 12. Muslim Women and Devotional Life / Zahra Ayubi and Iman Abdoulkarim -- 13. Women as Littérateurs in the Premodern Period / Samer Ali -- 14. Women as Economic Actors in the Pre-Modern Islamic World / Amira Sonbol --E. Women's Lived Realities and their Religious and Social Activism in the Modern Period: 15. Women in the Mosque: Contesting Public Space and Religious Authority / Marion Katz -- 16. Negotiating Motherhood, Religion, and Modern Lived Realities / Margaret Pappano -- 17. Women as Modern Heads-of-State / Tamara Sonn -- 18. Women's Religious and Social Activism in Syria, Lebanon, and Palestine / Elizabeth Brownson -- 19. Women's Religious and Social Activism in Egypt and North Africa / Nermin Allam -- 20. Women's Religious and Social Activism in Iran / Seema Golestaneh -- 21. Women's Religious and Social Activism in Turkey / Chiara Maritato -- 22. Women's Religious and Social Activism in South Asia / Elora Shehabuddin -- 24. Muslim Women's Religious and Social Activism in China / Maria Jaschok and Man Ke -- 25. Muslim Women's Religious and Social Activism in South Africa / Nina Hoel -- 26. Muslim Women's Religious and Social Activism in North America / Juliane Hammer -- 27. Muslim Women's Religious and Social Activism in western Europe / Jeanette Jouili -- 28. Women's Religious and Social Activism in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf / Alainna Liloia -- F. Modern Narratives of the Gendered Self: Women Writing about Women: 29. Modern Representations of the Wives of the Prophet / Ruqayya Khan -- 30. An Overview of Modern and Contemporary Muslim Feminist Literature / Miriam Cooke -- G. Islam, Women, and the Global Public Arena: 31. Women's Sartorial Agency: the History and Politics of Veiling / Anna Piela -- 32. Muslim Women as a Cultural Trope: Global Discourses and the Politics of Victimhood / Katherine Bullock

""Islam and Women" is a very broad topic and as complex as the lives of women that it encompasses in a broad swath of the world. In its wide-ranging coverage of issues subsumed under this umbrella topic, this volume is purposefully multi-disciplinary. The chapters are authoritative contributions from well-known scholars who are at the cutting-edge of scholarship on inter alia Qur'anic hermeneutics and hadith studies, women's legal and social rights, women's scholarly, cultural, economic, and political activities in the pre-modern and modern Islamic societies, the rise of Islamic feminism and women's activism and movements in a number of contemporary Muslim-majority countries and regions, including Egypt and North Africa, Turkey, Iran, Palestine, Lebanon and Syria, Saudi Arabia and the Gulf region, South and Southeast Asia, and in Muslim-minority contexts in western Europe, the United States, and China. The politicized portrayal of Muslim women, especially of those who wear the headscarf (hijab), in the global Western-dominated media and the weaponization of their bodies in certain kinds of political and feminist discourses also receive attention. These chapters delineate a broad spectrum of views on these key issues that are prevalent inside and outside of academia and provide sophisticated and careful analysis of textual sources and of broad sociological and political trends. Many of these essays emphasize above all the diversity present in Muslim women's lives, both in the pre-modern and modern periods, and pay close attention to the historical and political contexts that shaped their lives and framed the thinking and actions of key female figures throughout Islamic history. Such an approach results in fine-grained macro- and micro-studies of Muslim women's lives that problematize reified assumptions of gender and agency in the context of Muslim-majority societies." --Provided by publisher.