Islamic Feminism in the Age of Consent

Dear Colleagues,

I am writing this letter to invite you to contribute to our Special Issue on “Islamic Feminism in the Age of Consent”. I have come across your scholarship in the past and thought that you may be interested in publishing your work with us.

Scholarship on Islam and feminism has a myriad of approaches ranging from historical, hermeneutical, mystical, theological, philosophical, anthropological, media, and many others. These approaches bring about specific issues within each discipline and locality. The topics debated in each discipline vary, ranging from (1) the need to reinterpret the Quran and to revisit the hadith (Hassan, Mernissi, Wadud, Hidayatullah, and Barlas) and to revisit the historical encounter with gender issues (Ahmed, Ali, Myrne, and Geissinger), (2) the importance of addressing biases toward women in Islamic ethics and philosophy (Ayubi, Azam, and Shaikh) and Islamic law (Siddiqui, Yaqoob, and Mir-Hosseini), (3) the contextualization of women’s challenges and advocacy for equality within specific countries (Nurmila, Robb, El-Tantawi, and Nisa) to (4) the intersection between religion, gender, sexuality, and race (Taylor, Kugle, Mubarak, Ruby, and Haqqani).

While the debates over Islam and feminist encounters continue to evolve, new challenges demand new responses. The #metoo movements in the West and the implementation of the ratified CEDAW in laws to address the elimination of sexual violence and discrimination against women in majority Muslim countries have garnered debates about the compatibility of values such as consent and marital rape drawn from the liberal settings with assumed Islamic teaching of women’s virtue of silence as agreement, guardianship, and women’s obedience to the husband. This contestation prompts us to reevaluate the relationship between Islam and feminism and to define what it should look like in response to the burgeoning debates on consent. We are looking for articles that address the Islamic feminist debates on consent using interdisciplinary approaches.

We are pleased to invite you to contribute to our Special Issue on Islamic Feminism in the Age of Consent. In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome. Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:

• Defining Islamic feminism: then and now;
• #metoo movements and their impact on consent;
• Debates over consent in the Quran and/or the prophetic tradition;
• Marital rape and consent;
• Consent and sexual ethics: origin and development;
• Consent and Muslim women’s agency;
• Consent from the Fiqh perspective;
• Debating consent in a specific Muslim country;
• Decolonizing consent in Muslim contexts;
• Consent in Islamic law;
• Toxic masculine cultures and anti-feminism.

I look forward to receiving your contributions. Using an Islamic feminist lens, I believe that your scholarship will contribute to the making of the age of consent.

Prof. Dr. Etin Anwar
Guest Editor

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