The Cambridge Companion to Women and Islam

Masooda Bano is a Professor of Development Studies at the University of Oxford and a Senior Golding Fellow at Brasenose College, Oxford. She has held numerous prestigious research awards including European Research Council Starting and Advance grants. Bano is the author of Female Islamic Education Movements: The Re-Democratisation of Islamic Knowledge (2017) and has edited several volumes on Islamic educational institutions in Muslim-majority countries as well as in the West.

Preface; Authors' Biographies; A Note on Foreign Language Words; Introduction; Part I. Logic of Classical Reasoning: 1. Women in the Qur'an Karen Bauer; 2. Women's inheritance Sohail Hanif; 3. Veiling and restrictions on sexual liberty Katerina Nordin; 4. Muhammad: the ideal man Faraz Khan; 5. Prophet's Wives: 'the mothers of believers' Mahjabeen Dhala; Part II. Asserting Agency in Faith: 6. Becoming Salafi Arndt Emmerich & Alyaa Ebbiary; 7. Joining political Islam Liv Tønnessen; 8. Conversions to Islam Vanessa Vroon-Najem; 9. Islamic feminists' approaches Nina Nurmila; 10. Women's Mosques in China Maria Jaschok; Part III. Asserting Agency in Socio-Political Life: 11. Patrons of art, architecture, and the urban environment Dede Fairchild Ruggles; 12. Women as political leaders Shahla Haeri; 13. Women as social activists Nelly van Doorn-Harder; 14. Poets and writers Zuzanna Olszewska; 15. 'Feminist religiosity' as lived religion Zilka Spahic-Siljak.