Women and Islam

Learn more about women and Islam from this sampling of books:

Nine Parts of Desire: The Hidden World of Islamic Women
by Geraldine Brooks

Women Claim Islam: Creating Islamic Feminism Through Literature
by Miriam Cooke

The Veil and the Male Elite: A Feminist Interpretation of Women’s Rights in Islam
by Fatima Mernissi, translated by Mary Jo Lakeland

Feminism and Islam: Legal and Literary Perspectives
by Mai Yamani and Andrew Allen, editors

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