As the coronavirus pandemic offers time to step back, Muslim Americans rethink how mosques can be more welcoming to women and ...

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 ...

Islamophobia is a huge problem in the West in this day and age. An argument often cited against Islam is that it calls for the oppression of women, but this is simply untrue. The patriarchal system we ...

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 ...

Women are becoming more active and outspoken, and more women are going to mosques." Younger Muslim women generally are the ones reaching out, she said, because they speak better English, understand ...

Two women of Islam answered questions and delivered information about their faith to a group of curious non-Muslims Thursday evening as part of Islamic Awareness Week at ASU. Debra Enos and Aneesah ...

The following traditions of the Prophet indicate the elevated function of woman in Islam: “Women are half of men. Fear God in respect of women. Heaven lies beneath the feet of mothers. (That is, those ...

For his day, the Prophet Muhammad was a feminist. The doctrine he laid out as the revealed word of God considerably improved the status of women in 7th century Arabia. In local pagan society, it was ...