Navigating Stereotypes and Challenges in Islamic Feminism

Can Muslims be feminists? Should they be? This week, we speak with Hadia Mubarak, a self-described Muslim feminist, about the role and place of women in Islam. Professor Mubarak is the author of a  groundbreaking new book titled Rebellious Wives and Neglectful Husbands. She fields a variety of tough questions from Shadi and Matthew: As a Muslim feminist, how do you interpret difficult texts about women in the Qur’an and the Hadith? How do you respond to sexism in the mosque? What is it like to wear the headscarf in a secular society? And how might your Islamic feminism differ from secular feminism? Mubarak also shares some of her own fascinating story of how she was shaped by the local Muslim community in an unlikely place—Panama City, Florida.

Links:

Hadia Mubarak’s new book Rebellious Wives, Neglectful Husbands: https://bookshop.org/a/65404/9780197553305

Matthew Kaemingk’s article on how headscarves are Islam’s gift to Western democracy: https://comment.org/the-headscarf-islams-gift-to-western-democracy/

Jessica Crispin’s book Why I Am Not a Feminist: A Feminist Manifesto: https://a.co/d/31PmvSj