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Bohra women’s use of social media to build businesses is an example of how religious communities can help women gain financial independence.
The Québec government thought it would Charter-proof its religious symbol law when it invoked the nothwithstanding clause. It was wrong.
Study shows that so-called “socio-cultural attitudes” are not a plausible explanation for the Muslim penalty.
In today’s episode, we take a look at some ways lawmakers have legalized Islamophobia through niqab bans and other restrictive policies.
As Muslims congregate in their local mosques in communal prayer for Eid, the Women’s Mosque of America, located in Los Angeles, will provide an exclusive religious space for its female congregants.
The age-old idea that Afghan women need rescuing from their men is a western construct that ignores the voices of Afghan women.
Day 5 our Understanding Islam series. For some Muslim women, wearing a hijab can be a religious act but Muslim women’s clothing isn’t entirely about faith. It has been used – and is still used – as an assertion of identity.
Day 6 of our Understanding Islam series. Sharia constitutes a broad set of rules that guide Muslims on how to lead an ethical life. The way Sharia is interpreted depends on who is using it and why.
Burqas and male chaperones for women were features of the Taliban’s extremist rule of Afghanistan in the 1990s. Those policies are now back in some districts controlled by these Islamic militants.
Comparisons between Begum’s Islamic garb and her new wardrobe suggest that Muslim women’s “liberation” depends on westernisation.
Complaints against BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour over an interview about female leadership in Islam have revealed how complex the issue is
Muslim women say the practice of wearing masks has given them more confidence to wear face coverings in public.
Divorce isn’t forbidden by Islam, but patriarchal societies make it almost impossible.
Boris Johnson has attacked Muslim women for covering their faces. Now he wants the whole of the UK to do so.
A survey of Muslim women finds many are frustrated by having a Islamic holy month in quarantine. But others say a ‘remote Ramadan’ is nothing new because child care duties often keep them home anyway.
Islam is not a monolith and not all Muslims are experiencing lockdown in the same way.
As people everywhere don face masks, scarves and bandanas to protect against coronavirus, Muslim women who wear the niqab, or Islamic veil, are feeling a lot less conspicuous.
My new research highlights a little known story of women’s roles in British Muslim history.
A round-the-clock strike of Muslim women in a working-class neighborhood of Delhi is India’s most enduring pocket of resistance to religious discrimination, inequality and gender violence.
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Professor in Sociology, Loughborough University
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Senior Lecturer in Social Sciences, CPsychol, FHEA, University of Bristol
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Visiting Scholar in Religious Studies and Gender, Northwestern University
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Senior Lecturer & UG Programme Director, Department of International Politics, City, University of London
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Assistant Professor of Sociology, UMass Amherst
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Reader, International Politics of the Middle East, University of Warwick
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Senior lecturer in Social Research, University of Bristol
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Honorary Research Fellow, Durham University
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PhD Candidate in Media, Macquarie University
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Associate Professor of Media and Communication at Monash University, Malaysia., Monash University
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Senior lecturer, York St John University
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Associate Professor in Faith and Peaceful Relations at the Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations, Coventry University
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Postdoctoral research fellow, The University of Edinburgh
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Director of Research at the Woolf Institute and Visiting Fellow at the Centre of Islamic Studies, University of Cambridge
