Asma Barlas
Professor/ Program Director
Ithaca College
Informal Papers & Journal Articles
Still Quarrelling over the Qur'an: Five Interventions, ISIM Review (Institute for the Study of
Islam in the Modern World), Autumn, 2007.
Women in Islam: Facts and Perceptions, in Memoona Hasnain (ed.) Patient-centered Health
Care for Muslim Women in the United States, conference proceedings, University of Illinois at
Chicago Press, 2007. (Pages 13-20).
Does the Qur'an Support Gender Equality, or, Do I have the Autonomy to Answer this
Question? Workshop on "Islam and Autonomy," University of Groningen, the Netherlands,
November 24, 2006. To see the poster I refer to in my talk, click here.
Unreading Patriarchal Interpretations of the Qur'an: beyond the binaries of tradition and
modernity keynote address, Association of Muslim Social Scientists, Toronto, Canada,
November 4, 2006.
The Pleasure of our Texts: Re-reading the Qur'an, Conference on Women in Religion in the
21st Century, Interchurch Center, New York, NY, October 18, 2006.
Qur'anic Hermeneutics and Sexual Politics, Cardozo Law Review, October 2006 (28: 1, pp.
143-151.
A Requiem for Voicelessness: Pakistanis and Muslims in the US, published in WADAGU: A
Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies, Vol 1 (1), Spring 2004.
Jihad = Holy War = Terrorism: The politics of conflation and denial, published in the American
Journal of Islamic Social Sciences, Winter, 2003 (20:1, pp. 46-62).
Muslim Women & Sexual Oppression: Reading Liberation from the Qur'an, in the Macalester
International, Vol. 10, Spring, 2001. Pasted on my website with permission from Macalester
College, MN.
Book Chapters
- “Women’s and Feminist Readings of the Qur’an,” in Jane McAuliffe (ed.), Cambridge
Companion to the Qur’an (Cambridge University Press, 2006).
- “Globalizing Equality: Muslim Women, Theology, and Feminisms,” in Fera Simone
(ed.), On Shifting Ground: Muslim Women in the Global Era (NY: Feminist Press, 2005).
- “Reviving Islamic Universalism: East/s, West/s, and Coexistence,” in Abdul Aziz Said
and Meena Sharify-Funk (eds.), Contemporary Islam: Dynamic, not Static (Routledge,
2006).
- “Towards a Theory of Gender Equality in Muslim Societies,” in Akbar Ahmed (ed.),
Handbook on Islam (under consideration).
- “Amina Wadud’s Hermeneutics of the Qur’an: Women Rereading Sacred Texts,” in
Suha Taji-Faruqi (ed.), Contemporary Muslim Intellectuals and the Quran: Modernist and
Post-Modernist Approaches (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004).
- "Texts, Sex, and States: A Critique of North African Discourse on Islam," in Kevin
Lacey and Ralph Coury (eds.), The Arab-African and Islamic Worlds: Interdisciplinary
Studies (Peter Lang, 2000).
Book Reviews
“The Antinomies of ‘Feminism’ and ‘Islam:’” the limits of a Marxist analysis, published in
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); in American Journal of Islamic Social
Sciences, Vol. 20: 1, 2003.