Muslim Women Are Everything

Muslim Women Are Everything
Author: Seema Yasmin
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2020-06-09
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0062947044

Winner of the 2021 International Book Awards Winner of American Book Fest's 2020 Best Book Awards in Women’s Issues A full-color illustrated collection of riveting, inspiring, and stereotype-shattering stories that reveal the beauty, diversity, and strength of Muslim women both past and present. Tired of seeing Muslim women portrayed as weak, sheltered, and limited, journalist Seema Yasmin reframes how the world sees them, to reveal everything they CAN do and the incredible, stereotype-shattering ways they are doing it. Featuring 40 full-color illustrations by illustrator Fahmida Azim throughout, Muslim Women Are Everything is a celebration of the ways in which past and present Muslim women from around the world are singing, dancing, reading, writing, laughing, experimenting, driving, and rocking their way into the history books. Forget subservient, oppressed damsels—say hello to women who are breaking down barriers using their art, their voices, and their activism, including: Tesnim Sayar from Denmark, a Muslim goth-punk who wears a red tartan mohawk on top of her hijab American superstar singer SZA Nura Afia, CoverGirl’s first hijabi ambassador Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, America’s first Muslim congresswomen Ilyana Insyirah, a hijaab-wearing scuba-diving midwife from Australia Showcasing women who defy categorization, Muslim Women Are Everything proves that to be Muslim and a woman is to be many things: strong, vulnerable, trans, disabled, funny, entrepreneurial, burqa or bikini clad, and so much more.

The Perplexity of a Muslim Woman

The Perplexity of a Muslim Woman
Author: Olfa Youssef
Publisher: Lexington Books
Total Pages: 166
Release: 2017-03-08
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1498541704

Using the methodology of modern scholars in the fields of Arabic lexicography, linguistics, and psychoanalysis, Tunisian feminist scholar Olfa Youssef investigates the rulings about inheritance, marriage, and homosexuality in the Qur’anic text itself and compares them with the interpretations provided by male Muslim theologians and legal scholars from medieval times to the present. In this book, she makes five central arguments: (1) There is a discrepancy between the layered signification in the Qur’anic text itself and the sutured explanations by religious scholars which have been enacted into law in many Muslim countries today; (2) the plurality of meanings is the quintessential essence of the Qur’an as evidenced in the absence of any sura over which there was unanimous agreement among Muslim scholars; (3) when male privilege was at stake, male legal scholars, to protect their own interests, ignored the divine text and based their rulings on human consensus; (4) Muslim medieval views on gender and homosexuality were more tolerant than contemporary ones; and finally (5), preferring indetermination and perplexity over the finality and certainties found in the judgements of male theologians, Youssef argues that only God knows the Qur’an’s true meaning. Her job as a Muslim female scholar is only to raise questions over those human interpretations that many Muslim societies mistake for divine will.

From Victims to Suspects

From Victims to Suspects
Author: Shakira Hussein
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 271
Release: 2019-02-26
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0300240899

Drawing on interviews and examples from across the globe, this book tackles the shifting narratives surrounding Muslim women Once regarded as passive victims waiting to be rescued, Muslim women are now widely regarded as arbiters of "terror" and a potential threat to be kept under control. Drawing on interviews and examples from around the world including Afghanistan, Pakistan, Europe, and North America, Shakira Hussein shows how this shift in attitude has taken place and how it impacts feminism, multiculturalism, race, and religion on a global scale. She argues that alongside the fear of Islamic terrorism is a growing fear of Islam as a cultural hazard that is undermining Western society from within. Muslim women, the transmitters of cultural practices, are frequently seen to play a key role in this. Hussein’s work makes for a compelling read, offering a unique perspective on what it means to be a Muslim woman post-9/11.

Courage Is My Crown

Courage Is My Crown
Author: Uzma Zamir
Publisher:
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2019-07-24
Genre:
ISBN: 9781081695293

Verily, with hardship there is relief" (Qur'an 94:6).Courage is my Crown is a book bursting with courageous stories from Muslim women, helping their community to discover their inner power and potential, and live the life of their dreams. Through sharing their inspirational truths they give a voice to topics not spoken of and help other women break free from cultural boundaries and expectations. This is the perfect read to guide, to motivate and inspire women, empowering them with courage and confidence to battle through their dark times and step into the light.'There is freedom waiting for you,On the breezes of the sky,And you ask, "What if I fall?"Oh, but my darling,What if you fly?' -Erin Hanson

Muslim American Women on Campus

Muslim American Women on Campus
Author: Shabana Mir
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2014
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1469610787

Muslim American Women on Campus: Undergraduate Social Life and Identity

When Islam Is Not a Religion

When Islam Is Not a Religion
Author: Asma T Uddin
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 291
Release: 2019-07-09
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1643131745

American Muslim religious liberty lawyer Asma Uddin has long considered her work defending people of all faiths to be a calling more than a job. Yet even as she seeks equal protection for Evangelicals, Sikhs, Muslims, Native Americans, Jews, and Catholics alike, she has seen an ominous increase in attempts to criminalize Islam and exclude Muslim Americans from those protections.Somehow, the view that Muslims aren’t human enough for human rights or constitutional protections is moving from the fringe to the mainstream—along with the claim “Islam is not a religion.” This conceit is not just a threat to the First Amendment rights of American Muslims. It is a threat to the freedom of all Americans.Her new book reveals a significant but overlooked danger to our religious liberty. Woven throughout this national saga is Uddin’s own story and the stories of American Muslims and other people of faith who have faced tremendous indignities as they attempt to live and worship freely.Combining her experience of Islam as a religious truth and her legal and philosophical appreciation that all individuals have a right to religious liberty, Uddin examines the shifting tides of American culture and outlines a way forward for individuals and communities navigating today’s culture wars.

The Rights of Women in Islam

The Rights of Women in Islam
Author: H. Jawad
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 160
Release: 1998-06-30
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0230503314

It has been argued that Islam liberated Muslim women by granting them full rights as citizens. Yet in reality we see that women have long been subjected to both cultural and political oppression. Instances such as forced marriages are sadly common in the Muslim World, as are restrictions on education and on their role in the labour force.

All-American Muslim Girl

All-American Muslim Girl
Author: Nadine Jolie Courtney
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Total Pages: 318
Release: 2019-11-12
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 0374309507

A Kirkus Best Book of 2019 A 2021 YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults Book Nadine Jolie Courtney's All-American Muslim Girl is a relevant, relatable story of being caught between two worlds, and the struggles and hard-won joys of finding your place. Allie Abraham has it all going for her—she’s a straight-A student, with good friends and a close-knit family, and she’s dating popular, sweet Wells Henderson. One problem: Wells’s father is Jack Henderson, America’s most famous conservative shock jock, and Allie hasn’t told Wells that her family is Muslim. It’s not like Allie’s religion is a secret. It’s just that her parents don’t practice, and raised her to keep it to herself. But as Allie witnesses Islamophobia in her small town and across the nation, she decides to embrace her faith—study, practice it, and even face misunderstanding for it. Who is Allie, if she sheds the façade of the “perfect” all-American girl?