Status of women
Progress of Arab Women
This wide-ranging report was published by the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) in 2004. Commentary on the report: al-Ahram Weekly; Jordan Times
Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW)
Full text of the convention and background information (UN website)
Latest news about women in the Middle East
Life stories of female entertainers
by Karin Van Nieuwkerk (extracts from A Trade Like Any Other - Female Singers and Dancers in Egypt, 1995)
Women and Islam
Women in Islam (Wikipedia)
altmuslimah
"Exploring both sides of the gender divide"
The status of women in Islam
By Yusuf al-Qaradawi
The status of woman in Islam
By Jamal Badawi
The status of woman in Islam
By Dr Hammuda Abdul-Ati from “Islam in Focus”
Women Living Under Muslim Laws (WLUML)
"Information, support and a collective space for women whose lives are shaped, conditioned or governed by laws and customs said to derive from Islam."
Women in the Qur'an and Sunnah
In Islam there is no difference between men and women as far as their relationship to Allah is concerned. By Prof. Abdur Rahman Doi, Ahmadu Bello University, Nigeria.
Women in society
How Muslim women should conduct themselves. By Prof. Abdur Rahman Doi, Ahmadu Bello University, Nigeria.
Advice from one Muslim woman to another
(first published in Muslim Creed, Vol. 3 No. 2, February 1995)
Women's Liberation through Islam
“The Muslim woman was given a role, duties and rights 1400 years ago that most women do not enjoy today, even in the West.” (jannah.org)
Gender Jihad
A discussion of "Islamic feminism" by Abdennur Prado
The distorted image of Muslim women
By a female convert to Islam
Why British women are turning to Islam
By Lucy Berrington, 1993
Islamic feminism: what's in a name
By Margot Badran (al-Ahram Weekly, 17 January, 2002)
Islamic feminism means justice to women
Interview with Margot Badran (The Milli Gazette, 16 January, 2004)
Feminism and Islam
Analysis of feminism from a traditional Islamic perspective, by Maryam Jameelah (13 July, 2005)
Islamisation and its impact on democractic governance and women's rights in Islam: a feminist perspective
by Zainah Anwar (Center for the Study of Islam and Democracy, 17 May, 2003)
Islamic traditions and the feminist movement: confrontation or cooperation?
by Dr. Lois Lamya' al Faruqi, undated, jannah.org
A declaration of the rights of women in Islamic societies
SecularIslam.com, undated
Dress codes
Women, Islam, and Hijab
The practice of hijab comes from the Hadith, not the Qur'an. But Islam does require both men and women to dress modestly. (Institute of Islamic Information and Education, Chicago)
Hijab: suppression or liberation?
(Institute of Islamic Information and Education)
Hijab and Muslim women
A Canadian-born Muslim woman descibes her experience of wearing a traditional hijab scarf. While some people see it as a symbol of oppressed womanhood, she finds it liberating.
An Islamic perspective on women's dress
(Muslim Women's League)
Women's dress in dangerous times
(Muslim Women's League)
To veil or mot to veil, that is the question
(Muslim Women's League)
An identity reduced to burka
(Muslim Women's League)
Marriage and childbirth
Rules for marriage
By Prof. Abdur Rahman Doi, Ahmadu Bello University, Nigeria.
The marriage challenge for single Muslim career women
(Muslim Women's League)
Who practises polygamy?
(Institute of Islamic Information and Education)
Marriage conventions in Taiz - Yemen Times
Role of the mukathiya at weddings
The mukathiya or shari'a is a woman assigned - in traditional Yemeni weddings - to beautify the bride and advise her on certain health and sexual matters. (Yemen Times, 8 Feb 1999)
Divorced from justice
Women's unequal access to divorce in Egypt (Human Rights Watch, December 2004)
An Islamic perspective on divorce
(Muslim Women's League)
Reflections on marriage and divorce in America
(Muslim Women's League)
Contraception in Yemen
by Dr Najeebah Ba-Hubaish, National Program Officer, UNFPA (Yemen Times, 18.1.99)
Marie Stopes International in Yemen
by Jane Diamond (British-Yemeni Society Journal, November 1998)
Infant and child mortality in Yemen
by Ahmed al-Barakani and Ahmed Abd al-Rub
(Yemen Times, 4.1.99)
Murshidat, midwives and nurses: women transforming health care and social relations in Yemen
by Delores M. Walters (Yemen Update 40. 1998: 32)
Violence against women
Honour killing (Wikipedia)
Honor killings: an Islamic perspective
(Muslim Women's League)
Beirut hosts 'honour killing' conference
BBC, 13 May, 2001
Arab honor's price: a woman's blood
New York Times, June 20, 1999
An Islamic perspective on violence against women
(Muslim Women's League)
Domestic violence
(Muslim Women's League)
An Islamic perspective on female genital mutilation
(Muslim Women's League)
Violence against women
UNIFEM campaign report, 1999 (PDF)
Violence against women information kit
UNIFEM, 1999 (Word document)
Aman
Jordan-based organisation to combat violence against women
Sexuality
Sex and sexuality in Islam
(Muslim Women's League)
An Islamic perspective on sexuality
(Muslim Women's League)
Bint el Nas
Website for "women who identify as gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and/or queer".
Safra Project
Project working on "issues relating to lesbian, bisexual and/or transgender women who identify as Muslim religiously and/or culturally"
Aswat
Organisation for Palestinian gay women
Women's history
Women in Ancient Yemen
Women – not just the Queen of Sheba – had an important role. By David Warburton (Yemen Update 36. 1995: 23, 33)
Women in colonial Algeria
A short bibliography
The status of women in ancient Egyptian society
by Joyce Tyldesley
Women in the ancient Near East
A select bibliography ( Oriental Institute Research Archives)
The Egyptian economy and non-royal women
William A. Ward, 1995. Department of Egyptology, Brown University
Egyptian women in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt
The economic and legal activities of women in Demotic texts. Alexandra O'Brien, 1996. University of Chicago.
Women in pre-Islamic Arabia
(Muslim Women's League)
