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Isasi-Diaz, Ada Maria
64

Ishmael
125

Islamic Da‘wah Movement (I.D.M.)
164

5
,
166
,
170

Islamic reform
87

90
,
113
,
119

academia and
11
,
65

6

and ethics
48

53

and family
130
,
149

57
,
233

gender and
43
,
51
,
53
,
81
,
89
,
90

92
,
93
,

95

8
,
170
,
183
,
188

9

and Islamic law
35
,
42
,
50
,
92

5
,
148
,

149

51
,
152
,
233
,
243

male scholars and
9
,
16
,
126

7
,
189

Muslim women’s activist organizations and

87

119

primary source texts and
8
,
15

16
,
42
,
93
,

187
,
215

pro-faith, pro-feminist movements
110

13

public policy reform
9
,
13
,
51
,
52
,
53
,
139
,

152

Sisters in Islam, Malaysia and
87
,
113

19

strategies for reform
2
,
278
(
21
)

taqwa
and
42

tawhid
and
28
,
93

women and
3
,
7
,
20

1
,
46

7
,
147
,
180
,

187
,
214

Islamic Studies in Western academia
57
,
61
,
86

American Academy of Religion
65

9

literature
75

personal narratives
61

5

transition from learner to instructor

57

8

see also
Muslim Women’s Studies

Islamism
27
,
52

3
,
83

4
,
110
,
151
,
265
(
17
),

269
(
17
)

Izutsu, Toshihiko
16

17

Jaggar, Alison
43
,
271
(
10
)

Jeenah, Na‘eem xvi,
165
,
264
(
13
),
274
(
7
)

jihad
, meaning of
10
Joseph, Suad
145
Judaism

academia and
57
,
69
,
122

and matrilineal descent
124

5
revelation and monotheism in
69
and single motherhood
144

Judeo-Christian tradition
69
,
70
,
122

3
,
144

and academia
84
,
122

and feminism
80
,
122

people of the book
194

jum‘ah
(Friday prayer)
162
,
167
,
177
,
249

Kahf, Mohja xvi,
121
,
272
(
1
)

Karam, Azza
83
,
264
(
10
)

khalifah
(moral agent)
14
,
15
,
17
,
32

7
,
42
,

43
,
185
,
258
,
260
,
266
(
28
),
266
(
32
),

266 (36
)

and the family
47
justice and dignity
46
and
taqwa
14

15
,
41

2

theory and practical gender reform
95

woman as
183

khatib
(one who delivers a sermon [male])
225

khatibah
(one who delivers a sermon [female])

12
,
163
,
166
,
168
,
172
,
178

81
,
182

3
,

186

khilafah
(moral agency)
11
,
14
,
33
,
35

7
,
80
,

261
,
266
(
32
),
266
(
38
)

and gender reform
89

justice and dignity and
47

and
taqwa
11
,
14
,
31
,
39

40
,
48

and
tawhidic
paradigm
31

see also
human agency

khutbah
(sermon)
41
,
177
,
178
,
225
,
234
,

276 (38
)

at Claremont Main Road Mosque
162

3
,
168
,
172
,
175
,
177

81
,
183
,
186

content of sermon
158

62
,
181

6

March
18
,
2005
congregational prayer, New

York
247

53

see also
pre-
khutbah
King, Martin Luther, Jr.
4
kinship
94
,
131

7
,
273
(
19
)

see also
family and motherhood Kugle, Scott
238
,
271
(
36
)

law, Islamic

colonialism and post-colonialism
136

and divorce
25
,
144

ethical and moral basis of
37

8
,
48

52

and family
48
,
130

1
,
133
,
144
,
149
,

152

3
,
233
,
241

African-Americans and
12
,
147

8
,
149

egalitarian concepts of
149

51

hudud
ordinances
136
,
200

patriarchal constructions of
22
,
96
,
116
,

133
,
150

1
,
153
,
238

reform of
35
,
42
,
50
,
92

5
,
148
,
149

51
,

152
,
233
,
243

and theory
92

5

and women
116
,
129
,
144

5
,
147
,
148
,

150
,
152
,
235

see also
fiqh
;
shari‘ah

linguistics
206

8

literature on Islam and Muslim women
10
,
72

9
,
82
,
84

Lorde, Audre
81
,
89
,
140
,
256

Malaysia
63
,
116

17
,
174

see also
H.I.V./A.I.D.S. conference; Sisters in Islam

Mandela, Nelson
165
,
274
(
11
)

March
18
,
2005
congregational prayer, New

York
181
,
247

53
,
275
(
17
)

marriage
151

2
,
160
,
238

9

African-American Muslims and
148

and engaged surrender
160

2

and gender inequality
11

12
,
25

and menopause
193

Index
283

marriage (
cont
.):

Qur’an and
161
,
196
,
238

9

shari‘ah
and
153
,
195
,
236

subjugation of women within
25
,
37
,
145
,

153
,
195
,
236

violence within
202

see also
divorce; domestic abuse; family and motherhood; polygamy

ma‘ruf
(justice)
25
,
39

Mawdudi, Maulana
221

McCloud, Aminah xvi,
263
(
2
) media

and March
18
congregational prayer, New York
248

9
,
253

negative associations with Islam
58
,
63
,
66

and September
11
attacks
68

sensationalism in
246

7

Mernissi, Fatima
20

Minnow, Martha
182
,
184

Mir-Hosseini, Ziba xvii,
49
,
51
,
264
(
10
)

mithaq
(covenant)
35
,
266
(
36
)

modernism
230
,
243

monotheism x,
69

see also tawhid

Moorish Science Temple
145

Moosa, Ebrahim
166
,
189
,
275
(
18
)

mosques
174

6
,
177

gender separation in
168
,
174
,
175
,
177
,

178

and inclusiveness
174

as retreat from the world
260

1
motherhood
see
family and motherhood
Moynihan Report
146

mu‘amalat
(social or human relations)
36
,
94
,
203

Muhammad

and autonomy of Muslims xiii

as example to the community
43
,
97
,
202
,

203
,
277
(
19
)

and family
139
,
144
,
151
historical context of
214
and intent
48
,
92

and marital violence
202
,
204

and marriage
152
,
160

and motherhood
125

and piety xiii

and revelation
1
,
97
,
204
,
210
,
211
,
214

and sexuality
237

and slavery
123

and
taqwa
47

Umm Waraqah assigned
imamah
177

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