Khadija was the first believer, to whom the Prophet Muhammad often turned for advice. At a time when strongmen quickly seized power from any female Muslim ruler, Arwa of Yemen reigned alone for five decades. In nineteenth-century Russia, Mukhlisa Bubi championed the rights of women and girls, and became ...
Argues against the idea of a specific Islamic demography, and examines the spread of massive secularization throughout the Arab and Muslim world, suggesting that the evolution of Islam is not significantly different from the history of Christianity.
Writer and critic Ziauddin Sardar tells the stories of different interpretations of Islam and argues for a critical version of a religion that has a long and distinguished history.
