Books by Margot Badran
Margot Badran is a historian and gender studies specialist focusing on the Muslim world. She is a Senior Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and Senior Fellow at the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Christian-Muslim Understanding at Georgetown University.
Harem Years
by Huda Shaarawi, Margot Badran & Margot Badran
In this rare first-hand account of the private world of a Cairo harem during the years before Egypt declared independence in 1922, Shaarawi recalls her childhood and early adult life in the seclusion of an upper-class Egyptian household, including her marriage at age thirteen. Her subsequent separation from her husband gave her time for an extended formal education, as well as an unexpected taste of independence and a critical understanding of the price of confinement. Shaarawi's feminist activism grew along with her involvement in Egypt's nationalist struggle and culminated in 1923 in a daring act of defiance,when she publicly removed her veil in a Cairo railroad station.
Feminists, Islam, and Nation
by Margot Badran
The emergence and evolution of Egyptian feminism is an integral, but previously untold, part of the history of modern Egypt. Drawing upon a wide range of women's sources--memoirs, letters, essays, journalistic articles, fiction, treatises, and extensive oral histories--Margot Badran shows how Egyptian women assumed agency and in so doing subverted and refigured the conventional patriarchal order. Unsettling a common claim that "feminism is Western" and dismantling the alleged opposition between feminism and Islam, the book demonstrates how the Egyptian feminist movement in the first half of this century both advanced the nationalist cause and worked within the parameters of Islam.
Feminism in Islam
by Margot Badran
No one is better able to make such a contribution to Islam and Gender Studies than Badran." --Amina Wadud, Professor of Islamic studies and author of 'Inside the Gender Jihad: Women's Reform in Islam.
Interviews with Margot Badran
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Islam and Democracy
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Secular and Islamic Feminist Critiques in the Work of Fatima Mernissi
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Inside the Gender Jihad
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Counter Legal Draft of the Compilation of Islamic Law
by Siti Musdah Mulia -
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Iranian Women’s One Million Signatures
by Noushin Khorasani
The best books on Islam and Feminism, recommended by Margot Badran
The best books on Islam and Feminism, recommended by Margot Badran
The historian and gender studies specialist Margot Badran has devoted her life’s work to the Muslim world. Here she explains what feminism means in the context of Islam and chooses five books that have been critical in its evolution.
