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Tenzin Palmo: “There Is Nothing” a Woman Can’t Accomplish

By Dominique Butet, Olivier Adam — 2017

“Reading my first book on Buddhism at 18 is what changed my life completely,” she’s said. When she was halfway through it, she announced: “I’m a Buddhist” — to which her mother replied, “Finish the book and we’ll talk about it!”

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Reviving Islamic Female Scholarship After Centuries of Erasure

Like other holy scriptures, the Quran has been studied and read, commented on, and interpreted mostly by men. There was a tradition of female scholarship early in Islam, but later, it was men at the helm of breaking down the verses, and deciding how they’re applicable to everyday life.

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KALW.org
2017
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Woman Leads Muslim Prayer Service in New York

Almost nothing about the Friday prayer held yesterday in Morningside Heights in Manhattan was familiar to Samira Jaraba, a Palestinian immigrant who trekked alone on the subway from Brooklyn, cloaked in a cream headscarf, to see if the rumors were true.

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amina wadud
2005
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Shari’Ah Is Not the Law

Before I became Muslim I read this book titled, Islam the Misunderstood Religion. That was almost four decades ago and this matter seems only to have gotten worse.

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amina wadud
2011
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Hajar: Of the Desert

This story is coated with patriarchy, and so it is with some fascination that Hajar (biblical Hagar) configures so significantly in the Islamic telling of it.

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amina wadud
2013
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Denmark’s Muslim Feminism and the First Woman Imam at Copenhagen’s Mariam Mosque

When an ostensibly secular state tests its Muslim citizens by skirting the edge of insult, the result is deeper division and alienation on both sides: the racist right vs. the anti-West Islamists.

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Nancy Graham Holm
2019
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Sherin Khankan Q&A: “If I Had to Define Myself by One Title, It Would Be Activist”

The imam talks activists as politicians, her Syrian refugee father, and a non-digital world.

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New Statesman
2018
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The Rise of the Imama: Women-Led Mosques Are Growing

Negative stereotypes abound of how women are treated under Islam. But there's a new movement of women-led mosques who are challenging this, and making both Muslims and non-Muslims think differently about the faith.

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Lin Taylor
2018
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Is Sherin Khankan the Future of Islam?

She is a controversial figure – not just as a female imam, but as a woman who has called for the reformation of Islam with a feminist agenda. Janice Turner meets Sherin Khankan at Europe’s first all-female mosque.

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Janice Turner
2018
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The Medieval Prophetess Who Used Her Visions to Criticize the Church

Hildegard of Bingen fought the patriarchy from her cloister.

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Hadley Meares
2016
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Buddhist Scholar Bob Thurman on the Dalai Lama’s View That a Woman Could Succeed Him

The Dalai Lama has said over the years that he would welcome a woman as the next Dalai Lama. One of his confidants for the past 52 years, Dr. Robert Thurman, offered his take in an interview with ABC News’ Dan Harris for his “10% Happier” podcast.

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Lauren Effron
2016
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