Book Chapters, Articles, Papers

Book Chapters

Hold[ing] Fast by the Best in the Precepts: the Qur'an and method, in Kari Vogt et al. (eds.), in Kari Vogt et al. (eds.), New Directions in Islamic Thought: Exploring Reform and Tradition (I.B. Tauris, 2008).

Engaging Islamic Feminism: Provincializing feminism as a master narrative, in Anitta Kynsilheto (ed.) "Islamic Feminism: Current Perspectives," Tampere Peace Research Institute Occasional Paper No. 96 (Finland, 2008).

Does the Qur'an Support Gender Equality, or, Do I have the Autonomy to Answer this Question? in Marjo Buitelaar and Monique Bernards (eds.), Autonomy and Islam, (Leuven, the Netherlands: Peeters, forthcoming).  For the poster I refer to in the talk, click here.

Women in Islam: Facts and Perceptions, in Memoona Hasnain (ed.,) Patient-centered Health Care for Muslim Women in the United States, conference proceedings, University of Illinois at Chicago Press, 2007. (Pages 13-20).

“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 and Meena Sharify-Funk (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.), Contemporary Muslim Intellectuals and the Quran: Modernist and Post-Modernist Approaches (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004).

"Texts, Sex, and States: A Critique of North African Discourse on Islam," in Kevin Lacey and Ralph Coury (eds.), The Arab-African and Islamic Worlds: Interdisciplinary Studies (Peter Lang, 2000).


Journal Articles

“Engaging Islamic Feminism: Provincializing feminism as a master narrative,” in Anitta Kynsilheto (ed.) "Islamic Feminism: Current Perspectives," (Tampere Peace Research Institute Occasional Paper No. 96), Finland, 2008.

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.

Papers

"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.

"Islam and Body Politics: Inscribing (Im)morality," Keynote, conference on Religion and Politics of the Body, Nordic Society for Philosophy of Religion, University of Iceland, Reykjavek, June 26, 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.