Book Chapters, Articles, Papers
BOOK CHAPTERS
"Does the Qur'an Support Gender Equality, or, Do I have the Autonomy to Answer this Question?" in Marjo Buitelaar and Monique Bernards (eds.), Islam and Autonomy, (Leuven, the Netherlands: Peeters, forthcoming, 2012). For the poster I refer to in the talk, click here.
"Embodying Islam and Muslims: Religious and Secular Inscriptions," in Marius Timmann Mjaaland, Ola Sigurdson and Sigridur Thorgeirsdottir (eds.), The Body Unbound (U.K.: Cambridge Scholars Publishers, 2010).
“’Holding Fast by the Best in the Precepts:’ the Qur’an and method,” in Kari Vogt et al. (eds.), New Directions in Islamic Thought: Exploring Reform and Tradition (London: I.B. Tauris, 2008).
“La hermeneutica coranica y la liberacion de la mujer,” selected papers, First and Second International Congress on Islamic Feminism, La Emergencia de Feminismo Islamico (Spain, Oozebap, 2008).
“Engaging Islamic Feminism: Provincializing feminism as a master narrative,” in Anitta Kynsilheto (ed.) Islamic Feminism: Current Perspectives, Occasional Papers, (Tampere Peace Research Institute, Finland, 2008).
“Women’s and Feminist Readings of the Qur’an,” in Jane McAuliffe (ed.), Cambridge Companion to the Qur’an (Cambridge University Press, 2006).
“Reviving Islamic Universalism: East/s, West/s, and Coexistence,” in Abdul Said et. al (eds.), Contemporary Islam: Dynamic, Not Static (Routledge, 2006).
“Globalizing Equality: Muslim Women, Theology, and Feminisms,” in Fera Simone (ed.), On Shifting Ground: Muslim Women in the Global Era (NY: Feminist Press, 2005).
“Amina Wadud’s Hermeneutics of the Qur’an: Women Rereading Sacred Texts,” in Suha Taji-Faruqi (ed.), Modern Muslim Intellectuals and the Qur’an (Oxford University, 2004).
JOURNAL ARTICLES & CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
"Abraham's Sacrifice in the Qur'an: Beyond the body," Conference proceedings, Religion and the Body, Donner Institute for Research in the History of Religion, Åbo Akademi University, Finland (2011).
"Still Quarrelling over the Qur’an: Five interventions," ISIM Review (Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World), Autumn, 2007.
“Teaching about Islam and Women: On Pedagogy and the Personal,” Intercultural Education, Special Issue, Vol. 18, November 2007.
Unreading Patriarchal Interpretations of the Qur'an: beyond the binaries of tradition andmodernity, American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences, 2007 (Vol. 24, No. 2).
Qur’anic Hermeneutics and Sexual Politics, Cardozo Law Review, October 2006 (28: 1, pp. 143-151).
A Requiem for Voicelessness: Pakistanis and Muslims in the US, WADAGU: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies, Spring 2004 (Vol 1, No. 1).
Jihad = Holy War = Terrorism: The politics of conflation and denial, The American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences, Winter, 2003 (20:1, pp. 46-62).
Muslim Women & Sexual Oppression: Reading Liberation from the Qur'an, Macalester International, 2001 (Vol. 10). Posted on my website with permission from Macalester College, MN.
BOOK REVIEWS
“The Antinomies of ‘Feminism’ and ‘Islam:’” the limits of a Marxist analysis, published in Middle East Women’s Studies Review; Vol. xviii, Nos. 1-2, Spring/Summer, 2003.
“The Uses and Abuses of Muslim History in Explaining Islam,” review of Empire and Elites after the Muslim Conquest: The Transformation of Northern Mesopotamia, Chase F. Robinson (Cambridge Cambridge University Press, 2002); in American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences, Vol. 20: 1, 2003.
UNPUBLISHED WORK
"The Qur'an, Shari'a, and Women's Rights," Plenary address, conference on Re-imagining the Shari'a, University of Warwick, Venice, Italy, September 14, 2009.
The Pleasure of our Texts: Re-reading the Qur'an, Conference on Women in Religion in the 21st Century, Interchurch Center, New York, NY, October 18, 2006.