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of
ijtihad
xiii

Islamic
14
,
37

9
,
48

9
,
151
,
157
,
168
,
205
,

213

and Islamic law
47

52
,
151
,
153
,
200
,
243

and justice
14
,
37

9

of risk
44

5

tawhid
as
28
,
185

Index
281

Fakhry, Majid
37

8

family and motherhood
11

12
,
120

57

the African-American family
145

9

and colonialism and post-colonialism
136

7

constructs of motherhood
11

12
,
125

9
,

132
,
133
,
142
,
144
,
145
,
156

egalitarian concepts of family
131
,
141
,

149

57

the extended family
132

3
,
137

40
,
141
,

144
,
145
,
146
,
150
,
152
,
153
,
277
(
19
)

family and engaged surrender
160

family and the law
48
,
130

1
,
133
,
136
,

144
,
145
,
149
,
150

1
,
233
,
241

“family values”
130

gender roles in the family
28
,
41
,
44

5
,

47

8
,
96
,
127

31
,
139

42
,
145
,
148
,

150
,
153
,
240

Hajar
12
,
120

3
,
124

5
,
129
,
130
,
143

5
,

149
,
152
,
153
,
276
(
38
)

H.I.V./A.I.D.S. and
233

4
,
235

6
,
241

2

justice and dignity in
44
,
46

7

matrilineal descent
124

5
,
132

3

and new global economy
140

3

nuclear family and extended family
60
,
79
,
133

4
,
137

40
,
152

patriarchal structure of
41
,
126

7
,
152
,

236

7

and paternity
133

pre-Islamic and early Arabian Muslim contexts
131

5
,
194

slavery and
123

5
,
147
,
152

and
taqwa
40

1

see also
children; domestic abuse Farrakhan, Louis
108

feminism

academia and
79

84
,
85

first wave
263
(
3
)

Muslim
8
,
72
,
82
,
83

6
,
189
,
264
(
10
),
278

(
21
)

pro-feminist Islamic movements
110

19

second wave
3
,
58
,
85
,
263
(
3
)

Third World
79

80

Western
3
,
72
,
99
,
110
,
112
,
113
,
146
,
236
,

263
(
3
)

Western origins of
2
,
79

80

fiqh
18

and family
145

and gender separation in ritual worship
176

and Qur’anic interpretation
202

3
,
204

and
shari‘ah
48

52
,
92
,
205
,
267
(
54
),

279 (7
)

usul al-fiqh
273
(
39
)

genital mutilation
77

al-Ghazali
39
,
238

Godlas, Alan
265
(
13
)

grassroots concerns and initiatives
11
,
52
,
98
,

100
,
101

10
,
116
,
117
,
215

hadith see ahadith

Hajar/Hagar
12
,
120

3
,
143

5
,
149

50
,
153
,

276
(
38
)

and family
130
,
148

and motherhood
129

as single parent
143

4
,
145
,
150
,
152

and slavery
124

5

hajj
(pilgrimage)
94
,
143
,
149
,
175

halqah
(religious study circle)
25
,
260

harth
(tilth), women designated as
193
,
238

hermeneutics
12
,
22
,
95

6
,
188
,
275
(
12
)

of care
53

and gender
116
,
191
,
192
,
206

7

see also
Qur’an, interpretive possibilities and gender

hijab
(traditional head covering)
61
,
109
,

176

7
,
219

24

and academia
61

2
,
67
,
275
(
27
)

agency and cost of choosing
hijab
221

4

in France
62

at H.I.V./A.I.D.S. conference
6
,
224
,

232

and September
11
attacks
222
,
226
,
227
,

228

9

as sixth pillar
219
,
277
(
2
)

as token of legitimacy
170
,
176
,
177

8
,
223

H.I.V./A.I.D.S.

children and
6
,
233
,
234

5
,
236

H.I.V.-positive Muslims
179

80
,
231
,
232
,

238

9
,
240
,
276
(
34
)

intolerance of
232

Positive Muslims
276
(
33
)

and sexuality
235

9

and
shari‘ah
242

4

vulnerability and
234

5
,
239

41

within families
233

4
,
235

6
,
241

2

and
zina
241

2

H.I.V./A.I.D.S. conference, Malaysia,
2002 6
,

12
,
224
,
231

44
,
275
(
34
),
278
(
18
)

homosexuality
85

6
,
238

human agency (
khilafah
) x–xi, xiv,
13
,
14

15
,
17
,
22

3
,
32

42
,
43
,
44
,
45

6
,
47

8
,

53

4
,
101
,
109
,
155
,
183
,
192
,
196
,

204

6
,
207
,
215

16
,
230

1
,
260

1
,

266 (32
),
266
(
38
),
267
(
39
)

corruption and xiii definition of Islam
22

3

and engaged surrender
23

4
,
196

7

and family
47

ijtihad
and xiii

and
taqwa
31
,
39

42
,
48

of women xii,
11
,
37
,
39
,
41
,
47

8
,
53

4
,

60
,
89
,
92
,
99

100
,
113
,
117
,
119
,
142
,

145
,
169
,
172
,
180
,
183
,
187
,
190
,
204
,

255
,
273
(
39
)

see also khalifah
;
khilafah

human development indicators, gender differences in
97

human rights, pro-faith agenda
110

13

“I am a Nigger” controversy
244

6

‘ibadah
(formal rituals)
36
,
94
,
147
,
266
(
38
)

Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyyah
49

iddah
(sexual abstinence period)
25

ihsan
(doing good deeds)
36

ijtihad
(the exercise of independent judgment) xiii,
243

illocutionary force
91

imagination
91

2
,
96
,
261

282 inside the gender jihad

industrial revolution
136
,
137

8
,
140
,
142

inheritance
37
,
124
,
128
,
133
,
134

5
,
144
,

267
(
39
)

International Conference for Women (Beijing,

1995
)
117
,
130

International Muslim Leadership Consultation

6
,
224
,
231

44

Isaac
125

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