Women

As what kind of entity does Islam envisage Woman? Does it consider her the equal of man in terms of dignity and the respect accorded to her, or is she thought of as belonging to an inferior species? This is the question which we...

The greatest desire of all young men and women who reach the age of puberty is to marry. Through the establishment of a joint marital life, they would earn more independence, as well as have a...

Islam came to eradicate all forms of prejudice, sexism, classism, and any other system of human appraisal that ignored or suppressed the inherent value that God has placed on....

Zeinab al-Kubra (s.a.) is a prominent role model in history and shows the significance of a woman's presence in one of the most important events in human...

With the onset of Islam and its special teachings, the life of women entered into a new phase - a phase which differed vastly from the previous one and became one in which women availed of...

The Islamic approach concerning marriage and morals differs from what is known about some of the traditional moralizations of a...

In fact, no divine law has been enacted or legislated without a rationale or reason but it remains concealed to us....

Zainab was stand up and said this is oppression, this is a tyrant, you have to stand up against it...

Throughout Muslim history, biographical literature has been a medium through which scholars negotiated and articulated criteria for membership and authority in their respective religious communities...

Through their performances of mourning rites, Shi’a Mohajerin (emigrants from India) Muslim women in Peshawar, Pakistan practiced an oblique,undeclared contestation against their subordinate position in a...