Asma Barlas

Professor Emerita, Politics
School: School of Humanities and Sciences
(Supposedly) FORTHCOMING...

"Muslim Women in Europe: In/between Worlds," Europe's Muslim Women, Muslim Women in Europe, Conference, Sigmund Freud University (2022). Vienna Journal for Interdisciplinary Islamic Research in Europe.

"In Defense of an Ungendered Theology: An Outline," Conference on Women, Religion and Human Rights (2022), Adyan Foundation, Lebanon.

SELECTED JOURNAL ARTICLES/ PAPERS

"When Gender is a Problem in Islamic Theology and Qur'anic Exegesis," Forum: Islamic Theological Studies, Austria, Vol. 2:1, 2023.

“Developing a Dialogue between Muslim and Catholic Educators,” International Studies in Catholic Education, Vol. 14:1, 2022 (pp. 54-67).

"Reading the Word in a Foreign Tongue: Islam's Scripture and non-Arab Muslims," WORD, Journal of the International Linguistic Association, Vol. 65:1, Spring, 2019 (pp. 61-68).

"Secular and Feminist Critiques of the Qur'an: Anti-Hermeneutics as Liberation?" and "A Response," Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, Vol. 32: 2, Fall, 2016 (pp. 111-121; pp. 148-151).

Uncrossed Bridges: Islam, Feminism, and Secular Democracy, Philosophy and Social Criticism, Special Issue: Reset-Dialogues Istanbul Seminars 2012, Vol. 39, No. 4/5, 2013 (pp. 417-425).

September 11, 2001: Remember Forgetting,” Journal of Political Theology, Vol. 12:5, 2011 (pp. 727-736).

“Engaging Islamic Feminism: Provincializing Feminism as a Master Narrative," in Anitta Kynsilheto (ed.) Islamic Feminism: Current Perspectives (Tampere Peace Research Institute, Finland) 2008.

"Still Quarrelling over the Qur’an: Five interventions, " ISIM Review (Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World), Autumn, 2007.

"Un-reading Patriarchal Interpretations of the Qur’an," American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences, Vol. 24:2, 2007 (pp. 129-135).

Teaching about Islam and Women: On Pedagogy and the Personal,” Intercultural Education, Vol. 18:4, November 2007 (pp. 367-371).

"The Excesses of Moderation," American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences, Vol. 22:3, 2005 (pp. 158-65).

"Jihad = Holy War = Terrorism: The Politics of Conflation and Denial," American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences, Vol. 20:1, 2003 (pp. 46-62).

"Muslim Women and Sexual Oppression: Reading Liberation from the Qur'an," Macalester International , 2001 (Vol. 10). Posted on my website with permission from Macalester College, MN.

BOOK CHAPTERS

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"Patriarchalism and the Qur’an" in Cesare Cuttica and Gaby Mahlberg (eds.), Patriarchal Moments , Bloomsbury Academic's Series, Textual Moments in the History of Political Thought , U.K., 2015.

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"Islam," in Adrian Thatcher (ed.), Oxford Handbook of Theology, Sexuality and Gender , Oxford University Press, 2015.

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"Does the Qur'an Support Gender Equality, or, Do I have the Autonomy to Answer this Question?" In Marjo Buitelaar and Monique Bernards (eds.), Negotiating Autonomy and Authority in Muslim Contexts (Leuven, the Netherlands: Peeters, 2013).

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"Embodying Islam and Muslims: Religious and Secular Inscriptions, in Marius Timmann Mjaaland, Ola Sigurdson and Sigridur Thorgeirsdottir (eds.), The Body Unbound (U.K.: Cambridge Scholars Publishers, 2010).

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“’Holding Fast by the Best in the Precepts:’ the Qur’an and Method,” in Kari Vogt et al. (eds.), New Directions in Islamic Thought (London: I.B. Tauris, 2008).

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“Women’s and Feminist Readings of the Qur’an," in Jane McAuliffe (ed.), Cambridge Companion to the Qur’an (Cambridge University Press, 2006).

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“Reviving Islamic Universalism: East/s, West/s, and Coexistence, in Abdul Said et. al (eds.), Contemporary Islam: Dynamic, Not Static (Routledge, 2006).

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“Globalizing Equality: Muslim Women, Theology, and Feminisms," in Fera Simone (ed.), On Shifting Ground: Muslim Women in the Global Era (NY: Feminist Press, 2005).

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"Amina Wadud's Hermeneutics of the Qur'an," in Suha Taji-Faruqi (ed.), Modern Muslim Intellectuals and the Qur'an (Oxford University Press, 2004).

BOOK REVIEWS & FOREWORDS

“Challenging Violence against Muslim Women,” Foreword for Pamela Cross, Violence Against Women, Toronto, Canada, Canadian Council of Muslim Women, 2013.

“The Antinomies of ‘Feminism’ and ‘Islam:’” the Limits of a Marxist Analysis," Middle East Women’s Studies Review; Vol. xviii, Nos. 1-2, Spring/Summer, 2003.

“The Uses and Abuses of Muslim History in Explaining Islam,” Review of Empire and Elites after the Muslim Conquest: The Transformation of Northern Mesopotamia, Chase F. Robinson (Cambridge Cambridge University Press, 2002); American Journal of  Islamic Social Sciences, Vol. 20: 1, 2003.