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justice and dignity and
46

khalifah
(moral agency) and
31, 33, 35, 48,

80, 89

khilafah
(moral agent) and
32

7
,
42
,
89

Mary, mother of Jesus and
229
and pro-faith agenda
11
Qur’anic cosmology
90

Qur’anic interpretation of
197
,
198
,
203
,

204
,
207

8
,
209

10
,
211

14

and relationships
30

1

and
shay’
30

and
taqwa
39

40

theory and practical gender reforms and
95
,
97

transcendence of
29
,
81
,
195

6

unicity of
see tawhid

as
al-Wadud
2

will (
qadr
)
23
,
24
,
34

amanah
(trust)
34

ambivalence, psychology of xii, xiii–xiv American Academy of Religion (A.A.R.)
65

72
Amin, Qasim,
Tahrir al-Mar’ah
111
,
272
(
16
)

An-Na’im, Abdullahi Ahmed
50

apartheid
165

6
,
167

apostasy
81

2

Apter, Terri
44

Atkinson, Clarissa
273
(
22
)

autonomy of Muslims x–xi, xiii, xiv,
24
,
41

female
59
,
118
,
190

of the weak and oppressed
215

Badran, Margot
83

Barangzangi, Nimat
273
(
38
) Beauvoir, Simone de
80
Bhutto, Benazhir
26

Buber, Martin
30
,
31

“I–Thou” proposal
30
,
32

Buddhism
195

care

ethics of
44

7
,
104

Muslim women’s organizations and
104
,
108
,
109
,
110

Center for American–Islamic Relations (C.A.I.R.)
226
,
227
,
228

childbirth
46
,
125

6
,
158

9
,
229

children

adopted
133

4

280 inside the gender jihad

custody and maintenance of
150

1

foster children
133

4

H.I.V./A.I.D.S. and
6
,
233
,
234

5
,
236

shari‘ah
restrictions on full human agency
37

see also
family and motherhood Christianity

and academia
63

4
,
65
,
68

9

incarnation
214

and motherhood
128
,
144

symbols of
63

4

citizenship
33
,
34

5
,
44

5
,
99
,
129
,
145
,

163

4
,
225
,
261
,
271
(
10
)

see also dhimmi

civil society
271
(
10
)

family
139

and
khilafah
33

and laws
135
,
138

men in
163

4

and morality
39

Muslim
34
,
129
,
130

1
,
138
,
163

and N.G.O.s
98

118

separation between church and state
34

and the state
271
(
10
)

and survival of the species
135

and women and family
129
,
131
,
138
,
139
,

154
,
233

Claremont Main Road Mosque, Cape Town

162

3
,
166
,
168

73
,
175
,
177

9
,
180

1, 186

content of sermon
158

62
,
181

6

hijab
176

class issues

hijab
222

Muslim women’s organizations
101

collectives
see
Muslim women’s collectives and organizations

colonialism
2
,
91
,
100
,
111
,
112
,
136

7
,
187

complementarity discourse
27

8

and
taqwa
41

Confucianism
195

congregational prayer
see
prayer, congregational

constructions of Islam
5

6
,
14

15

engaged surrender
17
,
21
,
23

4
,
34
,
40
,

158

62
,
182
,
184
,
191
,
265
(
13
)

ethical theory and justice
11
,
14
,
37

9
,
45
,

110
,
215

ethics and Islamic law
48

52
,
153
,
200

justice and human dignity viii,
43

7
,
53
,
97
,

137
,
200
,
203
,
215
,
262

khalifah
(agent)
32

7

khilafah
(agency)
14
,
15
,
17
,
32

7
,
42
,
43

and power
17

23
,
52

3

semantics
15

17

taqwa
39

42

tawhidic
paradigm
24

32
,
168

9
,
185

6

consumerism
53
,
79
,
136

7

“conversion”, overuse of term
263
(
2
)

Dada, Ebrahim
166
,
167

Davies, Merryl Wyn
277
(
2
)
da‘wah
(call to Islam)
164
definitions of Islam
17

23
Dhiffy, Sitty
179

80
,
276
(
34
)

dhimmi
(non-Muslims in a Muslim polity)
112

dignity viii,
33
,
43

7
,
50
,
136
,
141
,
200
,
203

and H.I.V./A.I.D.S.
235

Islamic construction of
32

3

of men
223

Muslims and xiv

of the oppressed
215

slavery and
123

of women
3
,
15
,
16
,
33
,
53
,
97
,
117
,
118
,

125
,
145
,
150
,
170
,
187
,
204
,
205
,
220
,

248
,
262

din
(complete way of life)
18
,
34
,
92

4
,
95
,

260
,
261

as engaged surrender
34
,
160
,
161

and
khalifah
43

marriage
160
,
161

and Muslim women’s organizations
107

public ritual leadership
184

theory and practical gender reforms
95

disabled and handicapped people
37
,
131
,
155
,

166
,
174
,
267
(
40
)

diversity in Islam
12
,
22
,
55

6
,
67
,
112
,
127
,

153
,
165
,
245

divorce
25
,
91
,
150

1

and extended family
144

inequality in
25

personal experience
60

and verse
4
:
34 202
,
277
(
19
)

domestic abuse
40

1
,
130

1
,
151
,
233
,
269
(
8
) ethics and Islamic law
51

2

and H.I.V./A.I.D.S.
234
,
236

legal interpretation
52

3
,
130

1
,
200
,
202

4

shelters for abused women and children

51

2

silence regarding
52

and
taqwa
40

and verse
4
:
34 192
,
203
,
236, 277
(
19
)

double-talk
24
,
25

7
,
28
,
265
(
18
)

and quotations from the scriptures
52

and
taqwa
41

dress, Islamic
164
,
170
,
176

7
,
219

24

academia
61

2
,
67
,
275
(
27
)

African-American
109

agency and cost of choosing
hijab
221

4

at H.I.V./A.I.D.S. conference
6
,
224
,
232

and September
11
attacks
222
,
226
,
227
,

229

see also hijab

Eck, Diana L.
45

embrace between women and men in public

166
,
167
,
173

4

engaged surrender, Islam as
17
,
21
,
23

4
,
34
,

40
,
158

62
,
182
,
184
,
191
,
265
(
13
)

Esack, Farid
166
,
173
,
178
,
179
,
180
,
276
(
33
)

ethics

of care
16
,
44

7
,
48
,
103

4

and economics
136

7
,
141

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