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 ...
Host Liane Hansen talks with NPR's Sylvia Poggioli about her series investigating the lives of Muslim women living in European countries. The series will air this week on Morning Edition and Weekend ...
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- In the months after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Princess Wijdan Al Hashemi and her friend Aliki Moschis-Gauguet noticed that the only depictions they saw of Muslim women ...
The Supreme Court has made a pivotal ruling that requires bridegrooms to return any financial gifts received from their ...
The Supreme Court says marital gifts belong to the woman and highlights equality and dignity in its reading of the 1986 Act.
Citing “inherent patriarchal discrimination,” SC rules even gifts to the groom belong to the woman post-divorce.
Gandhinagar: A large number of Muslim women participated in a yoga camp organised in Ahmedabad on Friday by the Gujarat State ...
The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that a Muslim woman, who has been divorced, is legally entitled to recover cash, gold and ...
Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei delivers a staunch defense of the hijab as more women flout the Islamic Republic ...
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 ...
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 ...