Muslim Women and Gender Justice: An Introduction Juliane Hammer  Part I - Concepts: Muslima Theology, Islam and Feminism  1. Feminist Exegesis and Beyond: Trajectories in Muslima Theology Jerusha Tanner Rhodes  2. Islamic Feminism by Any Other Name Amina Wadud  3. Islam and Feminism: German and European Variations on a Global Theme Riem Spielhaus  4. Gender Equal Islamic Theology in Germany Irene Schneider  Part II - Sources: Qur'an, Hadith, and History  5. Woman-Man Equality in Creation: Interpreting the Qur'an from a Nonpatriarchal Perspective Riffat Hassan  6. The Pair in the Qur'an as Sign of Divine Creation Dina El Omari  7. With A'isha in Mind: Reading Surat al-Nur through the Qur'an's Structural Unity Zainab Alwani  8. The Qur'anic Turn of Women's Image: From Being the Object to the Subject of History Mouhanad Khorchide  9. Verse 4:34: Abjure Symbolic Violence, Rebuff Feminist Partiality, or Seek Another Hermeneutic? Celene Ibrahim  Part III - Histories: Knowledge, Authority, and Activism  10. Umm Salama's Contributions: Qur'an, Hadith, and Early Muslim History as Sources for Gender Justice Yasmin Amin  11. Religious Educated Women in Early Islam: Conceptions of Women's Images in Arab-Islamic Texts until the Tenth Century Doris Decker  12. Challenging the Authority of Religious Interpretation in Saudi Arabia: The Transformation of Suhaila Zain al-Abedin Hammad Hatoon Ajwad AL Fassi  13. Leading the Way: Women's Activism, Theology, and Women's Rights in Southeast Asia Susanne Schröter