Manal Al Sharif, a campaigner for women's right to drive in Saudi Arabia. Marwan Naamani/AFP/Getty Images. Akram's work, al-Muhaddithat: The Women Scholars in Islam, stands as a riposte to the notion, peddled from Kabul to Mecca, that Islamic knowledge is men's work and always has been. read more
Absolutely. The only debatable point is by what degree. Quran Quran (4:11) - (Inheritance) "The male shall have the equal of the portion of two females" (see also verse 4:176). In Islam, sexism is mathematically established. read more