Adis Duderija is Senior Lecturer in Islam and Society in the School of Humanities, Languages and Social Science and Senior Fellow at the Centre for Interfaith and Intercultural Dialogue at Griffith University, Australia.

Alina Isac Alak is Associate Lecturer and Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Bucharest, Romania.

Kristin Hissong is Assistant Professor of Middle East North Africa Studies with the Air War College's Culture and Language Center in Montgomery, Alabama, USA.

Note on transliteration Introduction Chapter one: Gender, Religion and Feminisms Chapter two: Masculinity and Femininity in the Premodern Islamic Interpretative Tradition: A Conceptual Overview Chapter three: The Logic of Patriarchal Honour and Its Manifestations in Muslim Contexts: Veiling, Female Genital Cutting and Honor based Violence Chapter four: Interpretations of Qur'an and Sunnah (Manhaj) and Gender Chapter five: Gender and Hadith Chapter six: Marriage (Qiwama, Wilaya and Faddala) Chapter seven: Divorce (nushuz, ta'a, daraba) Chapter eight: Inheritance and Polygamy Chapter nine: Adultery and Sexual Violence Chapter ten: Gender and Sexual Diversity Chapter eleven: Lived Religiosities: Contesting Authoritative Discourses and Practices Chapter twelve: Muslim Female Religious Agency and Gender Justice in Islam Chapter thirteen: Conclusion Index