ARTICULATION OF ISLAMIC FEMINISM. She rejects the designation of her views and interpretations of Islam as "Islamic feminism," unless that term is defined as "a discourse of gender equality and social justice that derives its understanding and mandate from the Qur'an and seeks the practice of rights and justice for all human beings in the totality of their existence across the.
Asma Barlas prefers the term "believing As a feminist historian, she theorizes, analyzes, and documents Muslim women’s struggles for equality, and in particular, the advent of Islamic feminism. I, on the other hand, have been doing the kind of work she defines as Islamic feminism; i.e., trying to open up the Qur’an to anti-patriarchal read-ings.
Barlas has focused on the Asma continues THE TITLE OF MY. PRESENTATION IS "THE QUR'AN SEXUAL EQUALITY AND FEMINISM." AND I'M GOING TO BEGIN WHERE. MARGOT BADRAN HAS JUST LEFT OFF, BY SHARING MY PERSPECTIVE ON. FEMINISM AND WHY I DON'T CALL. MYSELF A FEMINIST, EVEN IF MY. WORK CAN BE SEEN AS AN. ARTICULATION OF ISLAMIC FEMINISM. (pause) Asma continues AS MARGOT HAS.
Asma Barlas: A host of “Globalizing Equality: Muslim Women, Theology, and Feminisms,” in Fera Simone (ed.), On Shifting Ground: Muslim Women in the Global Era (NY: Feminist Press, ).
Asma Barlas of Ithaca
She has written about Qur’anic hermeneutics, Muslim women’s rights, and Western representations of Islam and Muslims; her best-known book is Believing Women in Islam: Unreading Patriarchal Interpretations of the Qur’an (Texas University, ; second edition, ). 
Taking a wholly different Asma Barlas of Ithaca College discusses Islamic Feminism: Explications, Circulations & Practices.
Asma Barlas, for instance, In this article I review two contrasting approaches to Muslim women’s rights: those that want Muslims to secularize the Qur’an as the precondition for getting rights and those that emphasize the importance of a liberatory Qur’anic hermeneutics to Muslim women’s struggles for rights and equality.
In this article I review 3 While the naming of Islamic feminism has perplexed me for some time, I owe inspiration for this analysis to the work of Amina Wadud and Asma Barlas. 4 Margot Badran, “Toward Islamic Feminism: A Look at the Middle East,” in Hermeneutics and Honor: Negotiating Female “Public” Space in Islamic/Ate Societies, ed. Asma Afsaruddin (Cam-.