Contents: Foreword Preface Acknowledgements List of Contributors Prolegomenon: Who’s Saving Whom? Postcolonialism and Feminism Claire Chambers SECTION I: Muslim Women in the Primary Islamic Sources Chapter 1. Is the Quran a Male-Centred Religious Text? (Abdur Raheem Kidwai) Chapter 2. Are the Quran and Hadith Biased Against Women? (Mohd Haris Bin Mansoor) SECTION II: Muslim Women’s Rights and Laws Chapter 3. Is Polygamy Allowed in Islam? (Javid Ahmad Bhat) Chapter 4. Is the Islamic Law of Divorce Divine or Draconian? (Irfan Jalal) Chapter 5. Is Instant Triple Divorce Allowed in Islam? (Mohammad Waheed Khan) Chapter 6. Are There any Contemporary Muslim Women Scholars? (Mohd Younus Kumar) Chapter 7. Does Islam Prohibit Women from Entering the Mosque? (Gowhar Quadir Wani) Chapter 8. Can Muslim Woman Pursue a Career of Her Choice? (Huma Yaqub) SECTION III: Muslim Women and Education Chapter 9. Do Female Students Enter #AMULibrary? (Faiza Abbasi) Chapter 10. What is the Status of an Educated and Successful Muslim Woman in the Middle-Class Indian Society? (Sadaf Husain) Chapter 11. Were There Muslim Women Scholars in the Past? (Sami Rafiq) SECTION IV: Socio-Economic Status of Muslim Women Chapter 12. Are Women Socially Suppressed Under Islam? (Juhi Gupta) Chapter 13. Does Islam Discriminate Against the Girl Child? (Syed Ali Hur Kamoonpuri) Chapter 14. Is Muslim Woman’s Status Lower than that of a Muslim Man? (Psycho-Quranic Perspective) (Mustafa Nadeem Kirmani) Chapter 15. What About the Underbelly: Muslim Women of Lower Income Groups? (Kishwar Zafir) SECTION V: Muslim Women vis-à-vis Feminism Chapter 16. What Do Islamic Feminists Stand For? (Md. Sajidul Islam) Chapter 17. Whither to Go: Women in Islam and in Western Feminism? (Sherin Shervani) SECTION VI: Interviews of Contemporary Women Studies Scholars and Creative Writers Chapter 18. In conversation with Qaisra Shahraz, the leading British Novelist (Wahida Firdous) Chapter 19. ‘Between the Legal and the Political’: In conversation with Flavia Agnes on the issue of Indian Muslim women (Aman Nawaz) Chapter 20. ‘Muslim Women Fight Back’: In conversation with Prof. Miriam Cooke, the pioneer of Arab Women Studies (Haris Qadeer) Chapter 21. ‘Who is Telling My Story?’: In conversation with Shelina Janmohamed, British author and memoirist (Haris Qadeer) Chapter 22. ‘The Law Criminalizing the Pronouncement of Triple-Talaq…is Ill-conceived’: In conversation with Professor Emeritus Sylvia Vatuk (Haris Qadeer) Index Muslim Woman: What Everyone Needs to Know examines various aspects of the lives of Muslim women particularly in education, career, personal law, economy, social relations, etc. It is a compilation of chapters, analysing various issues concerning Muslim women, while taking into account the Quranic perspective. It establishes how true Islam is both contemporary and liberal and bestows upon Muslim women the same status as men. The chapters seek to answer questions which are rooted in widespread misperceptions about Muslim women. It is an attempt to help the readers learn about the Islamic stance on women and how it has been misconstrued down the ages resulting in various misconceptions and misinformation about Islam itself.