Womens rights/status in Islam and other civilizations

The status of women in Islam is often the target of attacks in the secular media. The ‘hijaab’ or the Islamic dress is cited by many as an example of the ‘subjugation’ of women under Islamic law. Before we analyze the reasoning...

Roses, Not Protest – Norwegian Muslims respond to “Innocence of Muslims”

China’s Female Mosques – KATHLEEN MCLAUGHLIN, SHARRON LOVELL

  Women have led Muslim congregations in China for generations, but their tradition’s success may be its own undoing   Imam Guo Dong Ping, center, prays at a mosque in the village of Sangpo, Henan province. The women of Sangpo...

Gazan heads to Oxford University on unusual scholarship By Jon Donnison

The scholarship offers Rawan Yaghi a life-changing opportunity Rawan Yaghi is a bookish 19 year old who, appropriately for a student of literature, arrives to meet me in Gaza with a text tucked under her arm. It is a well-thumbed copy of Catch 22, Joseph...

A Sinhala Speech by a Sister – Women in Islam

Are female converts to Islam part of a new wave of feminism? By Hasnet Lais

  You’d think after watching BBC Three’s Make me a Muslim documentary, being a female convert to Islam is so riddled with fault lines. Not really. My recent interviews with Muslim converts offered a rare glimpse into the lives of three...

124-year-old Muslim woman refused to sell her religion for money and fame

The head scarf was the only hindrance in the way for the oldest woman in the world to enter the so-called Guinness World Records.   124-year-old Palestinian Maryam Hamdan Ammash, her sons and grandsons refused to meet the condition of the Guinness...

Meet the woman behind the niqab: Fathima Farook By: Catherine Porter

An entrepreneur, teacher, mom and volunteer, Fathima Farook has had to put up with shameful taunts for nothing more than her choice of garb.   Fathima Farook has a pleasant round face and warm dark eyes. If you buy her pakoora or aloo masala...

Maryam Jameelah – Life, legacy and lessons by Dr. Callista B. Rakhmatov

    “In Islam, my quest for absolute values was satisfied. In Islam I found all that was true, good     and beautiful and that which gives meaning and direction to human life (and death)… My adherence to the...

No More Excuses; Time to be a Hijabi

I have been Muslim for about two and a half years now. About 6 months after that, I began dressing more modestly, wearing long sleeves, looser fitting clothes, etc. I knew then that I would eventually want to/ need to wear a hijab, but wasn’t ready...