Inside the Gender Jihad: Women's Reform in Islam (59 page)

wives
196
,
202
,
204

see also ahadith
;
sunnah

Muhammad, W.D.
108

Muslim women’s collectives and organizations

11
,
45
,
98
–
119

African-American networks
11
,
101
,
102
–
6

grassroots initiatives
101
–
9

Muslim Women United
105
,
106
–
8
,
117
pro-faith, pro-feminist movements
110
–
13
retreats
105
,
107
,
109

Sisters in Islam
11
,
87
,
110
,
113
–
18
,

273 (17
)

T.R.U.T.H.
105
,
108
–
9
,
117

Muslim Women’s Studies
55
–
7
,
84
–
6
American Academy of Religion
65
–
72
gender issues
79
–
80

Islamic Studies in Western academia
57

Islamic thought, feminism(s), and postmodernity
80
–
4

personal narratives from academia
61
–
5

research and proliferation of Islam and women’s books
72
–
9

transition from learner to instructor
57
–
61

Muslim Women United (M.W.U.), Richmond, Virginia
105
,
106
–
8
,
117

Muslim Youth Movement (M.Y.M.)
165
,
167
,

274
(
7
)

nafaqah
(material support)
37
,
142
,
144
,
236

Naseef, Ahmad
253

Nation of Islam
108
,
145

new global economy, and family
136
–
7
,
140
–
3

Normani, Asra
248
,
253

non-government organizations
see
Muslim women’s collectives and organizations

Noor Cultural Center, Toronto
244
–
7

Omar, Rashied
166
,
186
,
264
(
13
)

Orientalism
57
,
71

phenomenological approach to religion
22
,
61

polyandry
133

polygamy
114
,
124

polygyny
114
,
133
,
192
–
3
,
236

polytheism, associationism (
shirk
)
29
,
32
,
111
,

194
,
213

post-colonialism
117
,
136
–
7

“post-Muslim”
81
–
2

poverty
44
,
59
,
126
,
129
,
137
,
150
,
217
,

267 (55
)

power
11
,
45
,
53
–
4
,
81
,
91

empowerment of women
3
,
7
,
8
,
53
–
4
,

102
–
19
,
239
,
240
,
256
,
262
,
271
(
10
)

and gender inequality
25
,
28
,
41
–
2
,
53
,
154
,

233
–
4
,
238
–
9

and human agency
35
,
36
,
91

of language
17
–
23
,
25
–
6
,
53
,
91
,
207

Orientalism and
57

political
57
,
259
,
261

see also qadr

prayer, congregational
177
–
81

Friday prayer (
jum‘ah
)
162
,
167
–
8
,
177
,

220
,
248

and gender separation
175
–
6

led by women vii, viii,
162
,
163
,
166
,

167
–
8
,
169
,
170
–
1
,
172
,
177
,
178
–
81
,

220
,
222
–
3
,
246
–
53

March
18
,
2005
congregational prayer, New

York
181
,
222
,
247
–
53
,
275
(
17
)

personal narrative
177
–
8

see also khatibah
;
khutbah

pre-
khutbah
167
–
8
,
172
,
177
–
8
Progressive Muslim Union (P.M.U.)
247
–
8
Prophet
see
Muhammad

public and private spheres, consequences of separate
99
–
100

public policy
41
–
2
,
47
,
53
,
99
–
100
,
129
,
139

284 inside the gender jihad

family
139

and reform
51
,
52
,
152

public ritual leadership
158
–
63
,
185

and
hijab
176
–
7

and
khatibah
178
–
86

and
khutbah
177
–
81

and mosques
174
–
6

and pre-
khutbah
177
–
8

in South Africa
163
–
8

and Claremont Main Road Mosque

162, 168
–
73

transgendered embrace between women and men in public
173
–
4

women and
12
,
54
,
169
,
178
,
183
,
246
–
7
,

248

see also
prayer, congregational

Qadir, Jennah Amina xvii,
105
–
6
,
108
–
9

Qur’an
9
–
10

agency mandate
53

‘amm
(general statements)
193
–
4
,
196
,
202

and corruption, acts of xii–xiii cosmology in
90

and definitions of Islam
22
eternal or created
207
ethical theory and
37
,
38
,
39

ethics and Islamic law
49
,
51

exegesis of
81

family and
130
,
131
,
134
–
5
,
139
,
142
,
147

egalitarianism
151
,
153
–
4
,
156
–
7

female-inclusive interpretations of
7
,
11
,
14
,

15
,
88

hijab
and
219

hudud
ordinances
136
human dominion in
256
illocutionary force and
91

interpretive possibilities and gender
187
–
8
,
208
–
16

gender justice
113
,
188
–
92

linguistics
206
–
8

sexuality
192
–
8

stages in textual interpretive development

202
–
5

verse
4
:
34 198
–
201

Islam as engaged surrender and
24

and justice ix,
1
,
25
,
39
,
50
,
97
,
199
–
200
,

203
,
207
,
208
,
214
,
215

just relations in
94
–
5

and
khalifah
32
–
3
,
34
–
5
,
36
–
7

khass
(specific statements)
193
,
196
,
202
and lack of compulsion in religion
81
–
2
and marriage
161
,
196
,
238
–
9

mosques and gender separation
175
,
176

and motherhood
127

on oppression
4

particularities and
42
phenomenological approach and
22
and polygyny
133
,
192
–
3

as primary source of Islam
56
,
95
,
97
,
154

and pro-faith agenda
111
–
12
public ritual leadership and
185
and recompense
156

semantics of
17

and sexuality
238
,
240

shari‘ah
and
34

Sisters in Islam and
113
–
14
,
116

and slavery
123
,
124
,
192
,
205

as source of
shari‘ah
56

and
taqwa
11
,
39
,
40
,
41

and
tawhid
29
,
30
,
31
,
93

theory and practical gender reform
95
,
97

as unifying principle of Islam
80

and well-being
7
–
8

Rabi‘ah al-‘Adawiyyah
258

racism and race issues viii,
152
–
3
,
225
,
245
–
6

African-American Muslim women’s networks and
102
–
3

da‘wah
movement and
164
in Richmond, Virginia
225
and slavery
123
–
4

Rahman, Fazlur and academia
77

constructions of Islam
14
,
22

and the Qur’an
193
,
199

and Sufism
260

and
taqwa
40
,
42

Rauf, Feisal Abdul
48
–
9
,
50
,
243

reciprocity, golden rule of
29
,
185
reform
see
Islamic reform Reinharz, Shulamit
80
–
1

Religious Studies
61
,
63
–
4

American Academy of Religion
65
–
72

reproductive technologies
128
,
142

research into Islam and Muslim women
72
–
9
ritual leadership
see
public ritual leadership Rouse, Carolyn
265
(
13
)

Said, Edward
57
,
64
,
71
,
77