"A superior book]. . . . the meaning and implications of justice in Islam, Christianity, and Judaism are analyzed and compared. . . . It] gives particular emphasis to the institutional context of justice and gender equality in the social, economic, and political arenas in Muslim countries."--Baha Abu-Laban, University of Alberta
Islam today counts one billion people as adherents or believers. Its teachings produced a civilization that has flourished for fourteen centuries. Islamic identity exerts a potent force around the globe, though Muslims are often stigmatized by Westerners as a...

An original study of the Qur'anic foundations of women s identity and agency, this book is a bold call to Muslim women and men to reread and reinterpret the Qur'an and to discover within its revelations an inherent affirmation of gender equality.Barazangi asserts that Muslim women have been generally excluded from full participation in Islamic society, and thus from full and equal Islamic identity, primarily because of patriarchal readings of the Qur'an and the entire range of early Qur'anic literature. Based on her study of the sacred text, she argues that Islamic higher learning is a basic...