Windows of faith : Muslim women scholar-activists in North America / edited by Gisela Webb.

Introduction: "May Muslim women speak for themselves, please?" / Gisela Webb -- Alternative Qurʼanic interpretation and the status of Muslim women / Amina Wadud -- Muslim women's Islamic higher learning as a human right: theory and practice / Nimat Hafez Barazangi -- An introduction to Muslim women's rights / Azizah Y. Al-Hibri -- Women's self-identity in the Qurʼan and Islamic law / Maysam J. Al-Faruqi -- Her honor: an Islamic critique of the rape laws of Pakistan from a woman-sensitive perspective / Asifa Quraishi -- The scholar and the Fatwa: legal issues facing African American and immigrant Muslim communities in the United States / Aminah Beverly McCloud -- Braiding the stories: women's eloquence in the early Islamic era / Mohja Kahf -- Reading the signs: unfolding truth and the transformation of authority / Rabia Terri Harris -- Striving for Muslim women's human rights- before and beyond Beijing: an African American perspective / Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons -- Is family planning permitted by Islam: the issue of a woman's right to contraception / Riffat Hassan -- Appendixes: A. Human rights in the Qurʼanic perspective / Riffat Hassan ; B. A partial list of organizations for Muslim women's rights, advocacy, and higher Islamic education in the United States / Kareema Altomare.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-280) and index.