Volume 39 Number 2, 2023

Editors’ Introduction

Michal Raucher and Kate M. Ott

Queer Muslim Piety: The Hijab Practices of LGBTQ Muslims in Boston

Magda Mohamed

Finding the Maternal Divine in Contextual Realities of Motherhood

Emma McDonald

Challenging Texts With Violence Toward Women: Lamentations and Comfort Woman in Feminist Postcolonial Perspective

Eliana Ah-Rum Ku

Introduction

Celene Ibrahim

Nurturing Gender Justice: Qurʾanic Interpretation and Muslim Feminist Thought

Roshan Iqbal

Engaging the Tafsīr Tradition: A Springboard into a Bottomless Ocean

Hadia Mubarak

Integrating Disability, Transforming Feminist Qurʾanic Studies

Halla Attallah

Extra-Qurʾanic Sources and Gender-Just Hermeneutics

Rahel Fischbach

Critical Studies of Hadith and of Islamic Masculinity: Two Important Frontiers for Future Qur’anic Scholarship

Yasmin Amin

Of Poets and Jesters: Methodologies and Reception Politics in Qurʾanic Studies

Celene Ibrahim

Muslim Feminist Exegetes, Not “Handmaidens of Empire”

Mahjabeen Dhala

Qurʾanic Textuality and the Potential of Aesthetic (Jamālī) Interpretation

Omaima Abou-Bakr

Moving from Male-Centric Fallacies to Feminist Interpretive Authority

Abla Hasan

Islamic Feminist Hermeneutics: Between Scholarship and Lived Realities

Mulki Al-Sharmani

Raising the Moral Bar: Reaching for the Beauty and Goodness of Iḥsān

Amira Abou-Taleb

Gender-Based Research in Qur’anic Studies: Concluding Remarks

Nevin Reda

Yeshua Sits Cross-Legged with His Classmates and Listens to Artemis’s Parable of the Soccer Match, and: Memorial to the Canaanite Woman

Benjamin Bagocius

Invisibility, Anti-Asian Racism, and Feminist Studies in Religion

Tracy Sayuki Tiemeier

Invisibility

Grace Ji-Sun Kim

Reflections on Asian American Religions: Transformative Hope and APARRI

Tamara C. Ho

Decolonizing the Body, Pedagogies, and Anti-Asian Hate

Najeeba Syeed

Narratives of the Body and Shame Degrees of Invisibility/Visibility in Public Spaces

Vijaya Nagarajan

See Me, Hear Me, Recognize Me

Rachel A. R. Bundang

Multiple Faces of the Same Coin: Religious Muslim Women in Israel Struggle with an Identity Crisis

Salwa Alinat-Abed

Censorship, Silence, and the Voices of Catholic Feminist Theologians

Hille Haker

Tools, Masters, and Houses: Exploring Leveraging as a Strategy Used by Religious Women Seeking Change

Elisheva Rosman

Negotiating Gender and Religion: Comparative Perspectives from Judaism and Islam

Lisa Anteby-Yemini