Tag Archives: Muslim Women

Sweden’s Supreme Court has reversed the schoolgirl headscarf ban passed by the municipality of Staffanstorp in 2019, arguing that it contravenes freedom of expression laws....

How Was Hijab Enacted in Islam? Did it become obligatory gradually or instantaneously? Did the rules, which were applicable to the Holy Prophet’s wives, have any role in the obligation of.....

In the crowded and bustling lane of the south Delhi suburbs, it’s a carnival here every day. People flock to this market every evening to buy everything a central market can offer....

This study explores the subjective experience of five Muslim women who wear or wore hijab in the past, and faced Islamophobia, using psychoanalytic case study methodology....

Drawing on legal and ḥadīth texts from the formative and classical periods of Islamic legal history, this book offers an overview of the development of the questions prominent jurists asked and answered about....

After telling Muslim men to lower their gazes, the Holy Qur’an reminds women: “And say to the believing women that they should lower their gaze and guard their modesty: that they should not display their beauty and...

With Islamophobia on the rise in politics and on the street, many Muslims are leaving France. Muslim women are very often the driving force behind the departure of an entire family because many cannot find work in...

This book is believed to be the first of its kind written by a renowned Muslim lawyer in the English language, and by an Arab author who is probably the leading authority writing in English in the subject of....

The author of the study, Toronto professor Sarah Shah, says her report shows what biases and socio-economic pressures women face and will be the basis for a new...

Challenging the conservative framers of Islamic law who accorded a lesser status to women, Mohammad Ali Sayyid argues that the Quran and the Hadith—the two primary sources of...