AURORA - With the floodlights cast on the Islamic world since 9/11, the plight of Muslim women has drawn intense media attention. After years of relative obscurity, seemingly they have found ...

Georgetown University’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs hosted an event contextualizing the different understandings of how Islamic teaching pertains to women’s behavior on Oct.

The second session of the “The Islamic World Today: Issues and Perspectives” conference featured two female speakers, both members of the Islamic community, on Monday. Each of them has studied and ...

As the national election draws near, the Ogun State Deputy Governor, Noimot Salako-Oyedele has implored women not to undermine their capabilities, but ...

How Muslim women in India are reshaping Ramadan through Instagram, WhatsApp, and online tafsir—between empowerment, ...

Islamic Gender Apartheid: Exposing a Veiled War Against Women, by Phyllis Chesler (New English Review Press, 462 pp., $29.99) Phyllis Chesler’s crucial early encounter with the reality of Muslim ...

I see myself as a strong, empowered young Muslim-American woman who has overcome bigotry, ignorance, and racism that attempted to make me feel ashamed of my Islamic beliefs and values. It’s common for ...

Saudi Arabia has changed its decadeslong rule that mandated single women be accompanied by a male relative when performing an Islamic pilgrimage, facilitating the participation of thousands of single ...

This story is part of a series by The Associated Press, Religion News Service and The Conversation on women’s roles in male-led religions. CAIRO (AP/RNS) — Shortly after Kholoud al-Faqeeh was ...

For his day, the Prophet Muhammad was a feminist. The doctrine he laid out as the revealed word of God considerably improved the status of women in 7th century Arabia. In local pagan society, it was ...