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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:

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.

Interntl 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.

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

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. Cdn 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

 

Charfi, Mohamed: 

 

THE TENT OF ABRAHAM: Stories of Hope and

Peace for Jews, Christians and Muslims.

 Beacon Press, Boston, 2006.

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 fromwww.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 UnivPress 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, France1996

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.

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

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. 

One world 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.

McCloud, 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.       

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.

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.