A review by kd_thompson
Sexual Ethics and Islam: Feminist Reflections on Qur'an, Hadith, and Jurisprudence by Kecia Ali

5.0

This may be the best book I have read on Islam, covering many issues I have struggled with as a feminist Muslim. She does a great job at clarifying distinctions between what the Qur'an, hadith, and Muslim scholars say about women, gender, and sex, calling into question claims about a monolithic and timeless "Islam" that one can turn to on these important issues and refusing to brush over issues that are problematic for those committed to gender justice, even in the Qur'an itself. My only disappointment was that, in keeping an academic tone to the book, the author never makes clear how she herself has resolved these issues in her own practice of Islam.