"Mulki Al-Sharmani examines the goals, approaches and methodologies which key scholars have adopted in their efforts at crafting an Islamic feminist discourse. Al-Sharmani also shows that Islamic feminism is a phenomenon which extends far beyond academia. Drawing on the author's own extensive research and interviews with women in Egypt, the UK, Malaysia, Finland and elsewhere, the book explores how ordinary Muslim women in both the West and the Islamic world are increasingly asserting their autonomy and challenging patriarchal interpretations of their religion, as well as exploring the linkages between Islamic feminist scholarship and the realities of these women's lived experiences"--

Mulki Al-Sharmani is Professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Helsinki, Finland.

Acknowledgments
Note on Translations and Transliteration
1 Islamic Feminism Revisited
2 Trajectories and Perspectives
3 Hermeneutics of Deconstruction
4 Hermeneutics of Reconstruction: Centering Theology and Ethics
5 Hermeneutics of Reconstruction: Rereading Gender in Texts
6 Islamic Feminism and Its Discontents
7 Transnational Islamic Feminism Activism: Musawah
8 Local Islamic Feminism Activism: The Politics of Reform in Egypt
9 Where We Are and Where We Go
References
Index