CURRICULUM
PART ONE - FEMINISM
Amir-Moazami, Schirin and Armando Salvatore. 2003. Gender, Generation and the Reform of
Tradition: From Muslim Majority Societies to Western Europe. In Muslim Networks and
Transnational Communities in and across Europe (eds) S. Allievi and J.S. Nielsen. Muslim
Minorities. Leiden, Boston: Brill. Pp 52 - 76
25 pages
Amir-Moazami, Schirin and Jeanette S. Jouili: Knowledge, Empowerment and Religious
Authority Among Pious Muslim Women in France and Germany. In The Muslim World .
Volume 96, October 2006. pp 617 – 642
26 pages
Bracke, Sarah: Author(iz)ing Agency: Feminist Scholars Making Sense of Women's
Involvement in Religious 'Fundamentalist' Movements. In European Journal of Women's
Studies 2003; 10; pp. 335 – 347
13 pages
Hamid, Shadi: "Between Orientalism and Postmodernism: The Changing Nature of Western
Feminist Thought Towards the Middle East". In Hawwa, Volume 4, Number 1, 2006 , pp. 76-
92
17 pages
Jacobsen, Christine M. 2004. 'Negotiating Gender: Discourse and Practice among Young
Muslims in Norway’. In
Nordic Journal of Religion and Society 17 (1), 2004, pp. 5-28.
24 pages

Deniz Kandiyoti: Bargaining with Patriarchy. In Gender and Society , Vol. 2, No. 3, Special
Issue to Honor Jessie Bernard. (Sep., 1988), pp. 274-290.
17 pages
Mahmood, Saba: Feminist Theory, Embodiment, and the Docile Agent: Some Reflections on the Egyptian Islamic Revival. Cultural Anthropology 16(2):202–236.
35 pages
Malik, Maleiha: ``The Branch on which we sit'': Multiculturalism, Minority Women and
Family Law' . In Feminist Perspectives on Family Law , eds. A. Diduck and K. O'Donovan
(2007). Pp. 211-235
26 pages
Mookherjee, Monica: Affective Citizenship: Feminism, Postcolonialism and the Politics of
Recognition Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy Vol. 8, No. 1,
31–50, March 2005
20 pages
Mir-Hosseini, Ziba: Islam and Gender Justice. From Voices of Islam , Volume 5, Voices of
Change , edited by Vincent Cornell, Omid Safi and Virgina Gray Henry (Westport,
Connecticut and London, 2007), pp. 85-113.
28 pages
Mir-Hosseini, Ziba: Muslim Women’s Quest for Equality: Between Islamic Law and
Feminism. Critical Inquiry 32 (Summer 2006). Pp. 629-645
27 pages

Waggoner, Matt , 'Irony, Embodiment, and the 'critical Attitude': Engaging Saba Mahmood's
Critique of Secular Morality', Culture and Religion , 6:2, 237 - 261
25 pages
Moghadam, Valentine M.: Islamic Feminism and Its Discontents: Toward a Resolution of the
Debate. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society , volume 27 (2002), pages 1135–
1171
37 pages
Recommended literature (in French)
Abu-Lughod, Lila. 2002. Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving? Anthropological
Reflections on Cultural Relativism and its Others. American Anthropologist 104, 783-790.
7 pages
Guenif-Souilamas, Nacira 2003, “ Ni putes, ni soumises ou très pute, très voilée, les inévitables contradictions d’un féminisme sous influence ”, Cosmopolitiques, Ce sexe qui nous dépasse , n° 4, pp. 53-65
13 pages
Guenif-Souilamas, Nacira 2002“ L’enfermement viriliste: des garçons arabes plus vrais que nature ”, Cosmopolitiques, cette violence qui nous tient
, n°2., pp. 47-59
13 pages
Miriam Cooke. Multiple Critique: Islamic Feminist Rhetorical Strategies. In Nepantla: Views from South 1.1 (2000) 91-110
20 pages

PART TWO – ISLAM:
Ismail, Salwa. 2006. Rethinking Islamist Politics: Culture, the State and Islamism . I. B.
Tauris. London. New York. pp. 1-114
114 pages
Abou El Fadl, Khaled. 2001.
Speaking in God’s Name: Islamic Law, Authority and Women
.
One World. Oxford. pp. 9-140
131 pages
Abu-Rabi’, Ibrahim M. 2004. Contemporary Arab Thought: Studies in Post-1967 Arab
Intellectual History . Pluto Press. London. pp. 203-278.
75 pages.
Mir-Hosseini, Ziba. 2007. ”Islam and Gender Justice” in Voices of Islam , Volume 5, Voices of
Change , edited by Vincent Cornell, Omid Safi and Virgina Gray Henry . Westport,
Connecticut and London.. pp. 85-113.
28 pages
Mir-Hosseini, Ziba. 2006. ”Muslim Women’s Quest for Equality: Between Islamic Law and
Feminism”.
Critical Inquiry , 32 (Summer). Pp. 629-646
17 pages.
Recommended literature:
Ramdan, Tariq. 2004. Western Muslims and the Future of Islam . Oxford University Press.
Oxford. Pp. 126-199.
73 pages