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"Islam and Body Politics: Inscribing (Im)morality," Keynote, Nordic Society for Philosophy of Religion conference on "Religion and Politics of the Body," University of Iceland, Reykjavek, June 26, 2009.

Hold[ing] Fast by the Best in the Precepts: the Qur'an and method, in Kari Vogt, et al. (eds.), The Changeable and Unchangeable in Islamic Thought and Practice, (I.B. Tauris, 2008).

Does the Qur'an Support Gender Equality, or, Do I have the Autonomy to Answer this Question? in Marjo Buitelaar and Monique Bernards (eds.), Autonomy and Islam (Leuven, the Netherlands: Peeters, 2009). To see the poster I refer to in the text, click here.

“La hermeneutica coranica y la liberacion de la mujer,” selected papers, First and Second International Congress on Islamic Feminism, La Emergencia de Feminismo Islamico (Spain, Oozebap, 2008).

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).

“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).

“Engaging Islamic Feminism: Provincializing feminism as a master narrative,” in Anitta Kynsilheto (ed.) "Islamic Feminism: Current Perspectives," (Tampere Peace Research Institute Occasional Paper No. 96), Finland, 2008.

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

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.

“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.