Muslima Theology ─ The Voices of Muslim Women Theologians

More Muslim women are becoming theological scholars. They encompass diverse points of view, not just as scholars but as women. These fifteen essays work together to present these points of view from historical and contemporary perspectives, from theological anthropology as it relates to Muslim women, from Islamic religious law, and from Muslim constructive theology. Individual topics include early community policies and the marginalization of women in Islamic intellectual history, Muslim women as religious scholars, feminist readings of the Quran, feminist theology in the US, women as they relate to man's "fall" in the Quran, the position of women in creating the Quran's perspectives, misogynist passages in Hadith literature, gender justice and Jihad, gendering purity rituals, Ibn Taymiyya's imprisonment, sexing prayer, a sacred ordinance of violence, moving toward a Muslim theology of religious pluralism, African-American Muslim women, and Sufism, Islamic law, and gender. Annotation c2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Ednan Aslan is Chair of the Institute for Islamic Studies and Islamic Religious Education in the Centre for Teacher Education at the University of Vienna.
Marcia Hermansen is Director of the Islamic World Studies program and Professor in the Theology Department at Loyola University Chicago.
Elif Medeni is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Education at the University of Vienna.