AURORA - With the floodlights cast on the Islamic world since 9/11, the plight of Muslim women has drawn intense media attention. After years of relative obscurity, seemingly they have found ...

Georgetown University’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs hosted an event contextualizing the different understandings of how Islamic teaching pertains to women’s behavior on Oct.

The second session of the “The Islamic World Today: Issues and Perspectives” conference featured two female speakers, both members of the Islamic community, on Monday. Each of them has studied and ...

Islamic Gender Apartheid: Exposing a Veiled War Against Women, by Phyllis Chesler (New English Review Press, 462 pp., $29.99) Phyllis Chesler’s crucial early encounter with the reality of Muslim ...

This story is part of a series by The Associated Press, Religion News Service and The Conversation on women’s roles in male-led religions. CAIRO (AP/RNS) — Shortly after Kholoud al-Faqeeh was ...

Assistant Professor in Faith and Peaceful Relations at the Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations, Coventry University The two first British mosques were established in 1889 in Liverpool and ...