Islamic feminism

Feminism, identity and Islam: crossroads, strategies and challenges in a transnational world

Abstract: This paper aims to address the phenomenon of Islamic feminism, by exploring the challenges it faces both in the Islamic community and within international feminism; considering the emerging debates around the “legitimation” of this trend, which has been tagged as an oxymoron by diverse actors. In this line, we wonder if negotiations, strains and […]

Islamic Feminism, Intersectionality and Decoloniality

Abstract: This paper argues that intersectionality provides Islamic feminism with a useful approach to understanding the lived experiences of Muslim women. In order to become truly emancipatory, however, intersectionality should be combined with a decolonial approach. Though de-centering the secular liberal ontology of mainstream western feminism and calling for a critical analysis of the global […]

The Co-option Islamic Feminism into Euro-Islam and the Loss of Liberation

Abstract: This paper contends that there has been a definitive and negative change in the trajectory of so-called Islamic feminism. This change has been effected in large part in Westernized settings, in particular as part of the growing discourse of Euro-Islam, European Islam, indigenization of Islam, etc. which is a discourse that comes not from […]