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 Alvi, S; Hoodfar, H;

McDonough, S ed:  

MUSLIM VEIL IN NORTH AMERICA, Women’s Press, Toronto, 2002.

 

Afkhami, Mahnaz ed FAITH & FREEDOM, Women’s Human Rights in the Muslim World.  Syracuse Univ Press, 1995

 

Afkhami,M & Friedl,E ed MUSLIM WOMEN & THE POLITICS OF PARTICIPATION.  Syracuse Univ Press, 1997
Ask,K&Tjomsland,M ed WOMEN AND ISLAMIZATION. Berg, N.Y, 1998
Al Hibri, Azizah ed WOMEN AND ISLAM.  Pergamon Press
Ahmed, Akbar POSTMODERNISM & ISLAM.  Routledge, NY, 1992
Akhtar, Shabbir A FAITH FOR ALL SEASONS. Islam and the Challenge of the Modern World.  Ivan R Dee, Chicago, 1995
Armstrong, Karen MUHAMMAD, A BIOGRAPHY OF THE PROPHET. Harper 1992.
 Arkoun,Mohammad RETHINKING ISLAM.  Westview Press,Oxford 1994
 Al Qaradawi,Yusuf ISLAMIC AWAKENING BETWEEN REJECTION AND     EXTREMISM.  International Institute of Islamic Thought. Herndon, Va 1995
Al Alwani, Taha J THE ETHICS OF DISAGREEMENT IN ISLAM.  International  Institute of Islamic Thought, Va 1996. 

ISSUES IN CONTEMPORARY ISLAMIC THOUGHT. Compiled papers, 2005.

TOWARDS A FIQH FOR MINORITIES. 

Al Raysun,Ahmad IMAM AL SHATIBI’S THEORY OF THE HIGHER OBJECTIVES & INTENTS OF ISLAMIC LAW. Internt Institute of Islamic Thought, Herndon, U.S.A, 2005.
Abou El Fadl,K SPEAKING IN GOD’S NAME. One world, Oxford, 2001.
Abou El Fadl, K ISLAM & THE CHALLENGE OF DEMOCRACY. Princeton U Press, 2004.
Abou El Fadl, K THE GREAT THEFT. Harper San Francisco, New York, 2005. 

THE PLACE OF TOLERANCE IN ISLAM. Beacon Press,    Boston, 2002.

Ali, Kecia SEXUAL ETHICS AND ISLAM: Feminist Reflections on Quran, Hadith and Jurisprudence. Oneworld Publications, Oxford, 2006.
Al Faruq,Lamya

WOMEN, MUSLIM SOCIETY AND ISLAM.  American Trust Publications, Plainfield, Indiana 1994

Abrahmov, B ISLAMIC THEOLOGY: Traditionalism and Rationalism. Edinburgh Univ Press, 1998. 
An Na’im, A A TOWARD AN ISLAMIC REFORMATION, CIVIL LIBERTIES,  HUMAN RIGHTS & INTERNATIONAL LAW. Syracuse Univ  Press  1996
An Na’im, A.A ed ISLAMIC FAMILY LAW in a changing world: A global Resource Book. Zed Books, New York, 2002
An Naim, A.A ISLAM &THE SECULAR STATE. Negotiating the Future of Sharia.  Harvard University Press, 2008
Aluffi, R & Zincone, G ed THE LEGAL TREATMENT OF ISLAMIC MINORITIES IN EUROPE.  Peeters, 2004
Ahmed, Durre ed GENDERING THE SPIRIT: Women, Religion & Post-Colonia Response. Zed Books, London, 2002
 Ali-Karamali, Sumbul THE MUSLIM NEXT DOOR. White Cloud Press, Ashland, Oregon, 2008
Armstrong, K

Several books, include: ISLAM: A short History. Modern Library, NY, 2002

Afsaruddin, Asma

THE FIRST MUSLIMS: History and Memory.  Oneworld Publications, Oxford, 2008

Barlas,Asma

BELIEVING WOMEN IN ISLAM.   Unreading Patriarchal Interpretations of the Quran.   Univ. of Texas Press, 2002

Bahramitash, R

LIBERATION FROM LIBERALIZATION: Gender &   Globalization in Southeast Asia.  Zed Books, London 2005

Badran, Margot FEMINISM BEYOND EAST & WEST. Global Media Publications, 2007.

 FEMINISTS, ISLAM, AND NATION. American Univ Press, Cairo, 1996.

Edited: HAREM YEARS: Memoirs of an Egyptian Feminist.

Huda Shaarawi. American Univ Press, Cairo1998.

FEMINISN IN ISLAM. Oneoworld, Oxford, 2009. 

Bowker,John VOICES OF ISLAM.  Oneworld Publications, Oxford, 1995
Bodman,H L & Tohidi, N ed WOMEN IN MUSLIM SOCIETIES. Lynne Reiner,Colorado, ’98
Behiery,V.A & Guenther, A.M

ISLAM: ITS ROOTS AND WINGS, A PRIMER. 

Canadian Council of Muslim Women, 2000

Bhimani, S

MAJALIS AL-ILM: Sessions of Knowledge.  Tsar Publications, Toronto, 2003

Charfi, Mohamed

ISLAM AND LIBERTY. Zed Books, London, 2005

Cooey,P.M; Eeakin,W.R

McDaniel,J.B ed

AFTER PATRIARCHY.  Orbis Books, NY, 1991

 Charrad,M.M THE STATES AND WOMEN’S RIGHTS. University of California Press, 2001
Chittister, J

Chishti, MSS;

Waskow, A

THE TENT OF ABRAHAM:Stories of Hope and Peace for Jews, Christians and Muslims. Beacon Press, Boston, 2006
Charfi, Mohamed ISLAM AND LIBERTY. Zed books, 2005
Dalacoura,K ISLAM, LIBERALISM AND HUMAN RIGHTS.  I.B Taurus, London, 1998
Dossa, Parin POLITICS AND POETICS OF MIGRATION Canadian Scholars Press, Toronto 2004
El Masry,M ONE THOUSAND QUESTIONS ON ISLAM.  Kitchener Waterloo Islamic Assn
Esack, Farid QURAN, LIBERATION & PLURALISM.  Oneworld Press, Oxford, 1997

THE QUR’AN: A SHORT INTRODUCTION.  Oneworld Publications, Oxford, 2002

Esposito, John THE ISLAMIC THREAT.  Oxford Univ Press, 1993
Esposito, John THE OXFORD DICTIONARY OF ISLAM. Oxford Univ Press, 2003
Esposito, J &

Mogahed, D

WHO SPEAKS FOR ISLAM? Gallup Press, N.Y. 2007
Engineer, Asghar A THE RIGHTS OF WOMEN IN ISLAM.  St Martin’s Press  NY 1996
El Guindi, Fadwa VEIL: Modesty, Privacy and Resistance. Berg, Oxford        International Publications, Oxford, 1999
Ezeilo, J.N; Ladan,M.T

Afolabi-Akiyode, A. Editors:  SHARIA IMPLEMENTATION IN NIGERIA. Published Women’s Aid Collective, Lagos, 2004. Available from www.wacolnig.org

Fatah, Tarek CHASING A MIRAGE.  John Wiley, Toronto, 2008
Fernea, E W IN SEARCH OF ISLAMIC FEMINISM. Bantam Doubleday, New York, 1998
Gole,Nilufer THE FORBIDDEN MODERN.  Univ of Michigan Press,   Ann Arbor 1996
Goddard,H A HISTORY OF CHRISTIAN-MUSLM RELATIONS.  New Amsterdam Books, Chicago, 2001
Hassan, Riffat WOMEN’S RIGHTS & ISLAM: FROM THE I.C.P.D TO BEIJING. Available from the author
Haddad,Y &

Idleman Smith,J ed

MUSLIM COMMUNITIES IN NORTH AMERICA.  State Univ  Press of N York, Albany 1994
Haddad, Y Y ed THE MUSLIMS OF AMERICA.  Oxford Univ Press, NY, 1991
Haddad,Y Y &

Esposito,J. ed

ISLAM. GENDER AND SOCIAL CHANGE Oxford Univ. Press, 1998
Hamid,A.W ISLAM THE NATURAL WAY.  Muslim Education & Literacy  Services, London, 1996
Hoodfar, H SHIFTING BOUNDARIES IN MARRIAGE & DIVORCE IN MUSLIM COMMUNITIES. Women Living Under Muslim Laws, France 1996
Hoodfar, H BETWEEN MARRIAGE & THE MARKET.  Univ of Calif Press 1997
Hassan, F ISLAM, WOMEN & THE CHALLENGES OF TODAY. White Knights Bks, Toronto, 2006
Hashemi, Nader ISLAM, SECULARISM & LIBERAL DEMOCRACY. Oxford U Press, 2009
Husain, Sarah Ed.                VOICES OF RESISTANCE: Muslim  Women on War, Faith &  Sexuality.  Seal Press, California, 2006
Hamdon, Evelyn L ISLAMOPHOBIA & THE QUESTION OF MUSLIM IDENTITY. Fernwood Publishing, Winnipeg, 2010
International Council on Human Rights WHEN LEGAL WORLDS OVERLAP: Human Rights, State And Non-State Law. Geneva, 2009
Ikeda, D & Teheranian, M     GLOBAL CIVILIZATION: A Buddhist-Islamic Dialogue.British Academic Press, London, 2003
Kamrava, M. ed NEW VOICES OF ISLAM: Rethinking Politics & Modernity. University of California Press, Los Angeles, 2006
Kurzman,C,ed LIBERAL ISLAM, A SOURCE BOOK. Oxford Univ Press 1998
Kandiyoti,D ed WOMEN, ISLAM & THE STATE
Kabbani,H &

Bakhtiar, L        

ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF MUHAMMAD’S WOMEN COMPANIONS & THE TRADITIONS THEY RELATED.  ABC International Group, Chicago  1998
Khan, Shahnaz AVERSION & DESIRE: Negotiating Muslim Female Identity in the Diaspora.  Women’s Press, Toronto, 2002 

ZINA, TRANSNATIONAL FEMINISM & THE MORAL REGULATION OF PAKISTANI WOMEN. Univ of B.C Press, 2006

Kurd, R READING RIGHTS: A WOMAN’S GUIDE TO THE LAW IN CANADA. Quarry Press, Kingston, Canada, 1999
Kymlicka, W POLITICS IN THE VERNACULAR. Oxford U Press, 2001
Lazreg,Marnia THE ELOQUENCE OF SILENCE.  Routledge Press, London 1994

QUESTIONING THE VEIL: Open Letters to Muslim Women. Princeton U Press, 2009

Malik, Aftab, ed THE STATE WE ARE IN: Identity, Terror and the Law of Jihad. Amal Press, Bristol, England, 2006
Mernissi, F BEYOND THE VEIL, MALE & FEMALE DYNAMICS IN MODERN MUSLIM SOCIETY, Indiana Univ Press 1987 Many other books by Mernissi
Meyer,A,E ISLAM & HUMAN RIGHTS, Traditions & Politics. Westview Press Boulder, Colorado  1997
Moezzi, M WAR OF ERROR. U of Arkansas Press, Fayetteville, 2007
Mahmood, Saba POLITICS OF PIETY: Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject. Princeton Uni Press, 2005
Martin,R;

Woodward,M

Atmaja,D

DEFENDERS OF REASON IN ISLAM.  Oneworld Press, Oxford 1997

 

Mir Hosseini,Z    ISLAM AND GENDER: Contemporary Iran. Princeton Univ. Press, 1999
Menocal, M.R The ORNAMENT OF THE WORLD: How Muslims, Jews

 & Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain. Little, Brown and Co, 2002

 

Minority Rights Group International

STATE OF THE WORLD’S MINORITIES & INDIGENOUS PEOPLES, Events of 2009. Published by Minorities Rights Group, London, 201
A.B AFRICAN AMERICAN ISLAM. Routledge, N York, 1995
Moghadam,V

MODERNIZING WOMEN:GENDER &

SOCIAL CHANGE IN THE MIDDLE EAST.

Lynne Reiner Publications,1993

Moghissi, H FEMINSIM & ISLAMIC FUNDAMENTALISM: The limits of Postmodern analysis. Zed Press, London, 2002
McAuliffe, Jane D,

Ed

CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO THE QURAN.

Cambridge Univ Press, 2006

Maalouf, Amin IN THE NAME OF IDENTITY.  Penguin Books, London, 2003
Nadvi, M Akram AL-MUHADDITHAT-The Women Scholars in Islam.

Interface Publications, London, 2007

Nasr, S.H IDEALS & REALITIES OF ISLAM.  Aquarius Press, London 1994
Netton,I.R A POPULAR DICTIONARY OF ISLAM. NTC Publishing, London ’97
Nouraie-Simone, Fereshteh, ed ON SHIFTING GROUND: Muslim Women in the Global Era.

Feminist Press, City University of New York, NY, 2005

Okin,S.M ed IS MULTICULTURALISM BAD FOR WOMEN?

Princeton U Press, New Jersey 1999

Othman, N ed MUSLIM WOMEN & THE CHALLENGE OF ISLAMIC EXTREMISM.

Sisters in Islam, Malaysia, 2005

 

Patel, Eboo

ACTS OF FAITH: Story of an American Muslim.

Beacon Press, Boston,  2007

Qureshi, E CLAIMING OUR RIGHTS: Islam, Muslim Women, and Human  Rights. Cdn Council of Muslim Women, 2000
Qureshi & Sells, ed  THE NEW CRUSADES. Columbia Univ Press, NY, 2003
Quraishi, Asifa ed THE ISLAMIC MARRIAGE CONTRACT. Case Studies in Islamic Family Law. Harvard U Press, 2008
Rahman,Fazlur ISLAM & MODERNITY, TRANSFORMATION OF AN 

INTELLECTUAL TRADITION.  Univ Chicago Press  1982

Robinson,F ed CAMBRIDGE ILLUSTRATED HISTORY, ISLAMIC WORLD. Cambridge Univ Press 1996
Roald, A.S WOMEN IN ISLAM: The Western Experience. Routledge,

 London, 2001

Rohe, Mathias MUSLIM MINORITIES & THE LAW IN EUROPE. Global Media

Publications, New Delhi, 2007

Rights& Democracy FUNDAMENTALISMS & HUMAN RIGHTS. Report on Meeting,

 May 2005.  Available from www.ichrdd.ca

Roy, Olivier GLOBALIZED ISLAM: search for a new ummah. Columbia U Press, New York, 2004
Raza, Raheel NOT MY JIHAD
Ramadan, Tariq RADICAL REFORM: Islamic Ethics & Liberation.

Oxford U Press, 2009

Ruthven, Malise ISLAM: A very short Introduction. Oxford U. Press, 2000
Sells, M: APPROACHING THE QURAN: The Early Revelations. 

White Cloud Press, Oregon, 2002

Safi, Omid PROGRESSIVE MUSLIMS, On Justice, Gender and Pluralism. Oneworld, London, 2003
Sharabi,H NEOPATRIARCHY.  Oxford Univ Press 1988
Schimmel, AM MY SOUL IS WOMAN.  Continuum Publishing, NY 1997
Soroush, A K REASON, FREEDOM AND DEMOCRACY IN ISLAM. Oxford

 Univ Press, 1999

Sachedina, A THE ISLAMIC ROOTS OF DEMOCRATIC PLURALISM.

Oxford Univ Press, 2001

Sonbol, A ed WOMEN, THE FAMILY & DIVORCE LAWS IN ISLAMIC HISTORY. Syracuse Univ Press 1996
Stein, Janice UNEASY PARTNERS: Multiculturalism and Rights in Canada, W. Laurier U Press, 2007
Stowasser, B.F    WOMEN IN THE QURAN, TRADITION & INTERPRETATION.

 Oxford Univ Press  1994

Shaaban, B BOTH RIGHT & LEFT HANDED. Women’s Press, London 1988
Siddiqui, M A ed ISLAM A CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVE. N American Assn of Muslim Professionals & Scholars, Macomb, Illinois 1994
Siddiqui, Haroon BEING MUSLIM. Groundwood Books, Toronto, 2006
Shachar, Ayelet MULTICULTURAL JURISDICTIONS, Cultural Differences and Women’s Rights. Cambridge University Press, 2001
Shweder,R;Minow,M;Markus,H.R. editors ENGAGING CULTURAL DIFFERENCES

The Multicultural Challenges in Liberal Democracies.

Russell Sage  Foundation, N.Y, 2002

Sardar, Ziauddin DESPERATELY SEEKING PARADISE: Journeys of a Sceptical Muslim. Granta Bks, London, 2004
Sisters in Islam lots of publications. E.g ISLAMIC FAMILY LAW AND JUSTICE WOMEN
Shakir, M.H CONCORDANCE OF THE QURAN. [based on Shakir translation]

Tahrike Tarsile Quran Inc. Elmhurst, N.Y, 2005

Souaiaiai, Ahmed CONTESTING JUSTICE-Women, Islam, Law and Society.

State Univ of New York Press, Albany. 2008

Tucker, Judith WOMEN, FAMILY, & GENDER IN ISLAMIC LAW.

Cambridge U. Press, 2008

UNDP WOMEN ARE CITIZENS TOO: The Laws of the State, the Lives of    Women.   Program on governance in Arab Region, Lebanon
Vakili,Valli DEBATING RELIGION & POLITICS IN IRAN. The Political Thought of AbdolKarim Saroush.  Council on Foreign Relations. 58 East, 68th St,  NY 10021,  1996
Vogt, K;Larsen,L

&Moe,C

NEW DIRECTIONS IN ISLAMIC THOUGHT.

I.B Tuarus, London, 2009

Wadud, A QURAN & WOMAN.   Oxford Univ Press, 1999
Wadud, A INSIDE THE GENDER JIHAD. Oneworld Press, Oxford, 2006
Walther, Wiebke WOMEN IN ISLAM.  Markus Wiener, NY 1993
Webb, G WINDOWS OF FAITH. Muslim Women Scholar-Activists in N America. Syracuse Univ. Press, 2000
Wolfe, M, ed TAKING BACK ISLAM. Rodale Inc, 2002, distributed by St Martin’s Press

 

Women Living Under Muslim Laws

This group has a lot of publications, order direct.  www.wluml.org  

FOR OURSELVES: WOMEN READING THE QURAN.                                   

REFUSING HOLY ORDERS: WOMEN & FUNDAMENTALISM IN BRITAIN. 

FEMINISM IN THE MUSLIM WORLD: LEADERSHIP INSTITUTES. 

CONSTRUCTING THE NOTION OF MALE SUPERIORITY OVER WOMEN IN ISLAM. 

RECOGNIZING THE UN-RECOGNIZED: Inter-Country cases & Muslim Marriages & Divorces in Britain. 2006

Welchman, L ed

WOMEN’S RIGHTS &ISLAMIC FAMILY LAW. Zed Books, New York, 2004
Wormser, R AMERICAN ISLAM.  Walker and Co, New York, 1994
Collectif 95 Maghreb-Egalite GUIDE TO EQUALITY IN THE FAMILY IN THE   

MAGHREB. Published by Women’s Learning Partnership for   Rights, Development and Peace, 2005. www.learningpartnership.org  

Yamani, M ed FEMINISM & ISLAM.   NY Univ. Press 1996
Yamani, M CRADLE OF ISLAM.     IB Taurus, 2004, London
Yuksel, Edip QURAN: A REFORMINST TRANSLATION. Brainbow Press, U.S.A, 2007
Yuksel, E;Mol,A
Peru, F
Critical Thinkers for ISLAMIC REFORM.  Brainbow Press, 2009
Zaman, S, ed AT MY MOTHER’S FEET:STORIES OF MUSLIM WOMEN. Quarry Press, Kingston, Canada, 1999