Black Muslim Women

Sara Aceves, Ain’t I a Muslim Woman? African American Muslim Women Practicing “Multiple Critique” (2010) http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1037&context=pomona_theses

Ousseina D. Alidou, Engaging Modernity: Muslim Women and the Politics of Agency in Postcolonial Niger (2011)

Ousseina D. Alidou, Muslim Women in Postcolonial Kenya: Leadership, Representation, and Social Change (2013)

Erin Augis, “Religion, religiousness, and Narrative: Decoding Women’s Practices in Senegalese Islamic Reform”, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 51/3 (2012), pp. 429-441

Margari Aziza, “The Politics of Black Hair and Hijab” http://www.altmuslimah.com/2015/12/10365/

Silvia Bruzzi and Meron Zeleke, “Contested Religious Authority: Sufi Women in Ethiopia and Eritrea”, Journal of Religion in Africa, 45/1 (2015), pp. 37-67

Barbara Callaway and Lucy Creevey, The Heritage of Islam: Women, Religion, and Politics in West Africa (1994)

Barbara J. Callaway, Muslim Hausa Women in Nigeria: Tradition and Change (1987)

Francesca Declich, “Transmission of Muslim Practices and Women’s Agency in Ibo Island and Pemba (Mozambique)”, Journal of Eastern African Studies, 7/4 (2013), pp. 588-606

Juliane Hammer, American Muslim Women, Religious Authority, and Activism: More Than a Prayer (2011).

Jamillah Karim, “Voices of faith, faces of beauty: connecting American Muslim women through Azizah” in Muslim Networks from Hajj to Hip Hop, eds. miriam cooke and Bruce Lawrence (2005).

Jamillah Karim, American Muslim Women: Negotiating Race, Class, and Gender within the Ummah (2009)

Debra Majeed, Polygyny: What it Means When African American Muslim Women Share their Husbands (2015)

Adeline Masquelier, Women and Islamic Revival in a West African Town (2009)

Aminah McCloud, “African-American Muslim Women”, in Yvonne Haddad (ed.), The Muslims of America (1991), pp. 177-187

Jan-Therese Mendes, Exploring Blackness from Muslim, Female, Canadian Realities: Founding Selfhood, (Re)Claiming Identity and Negotiating Belongingness within/against a Hostile Nation (2011)

Zakiyyah Muhammad, “Muslim African American Women: The Qur’an, Human Excellence and the Four Rivers,” in Lopez D. Matthews, Jr. and Kenvi C. Phillips (eds.), Liberating Minds, Liberating Society: Black Women in the Development of American Culture and Society, (Create Space Independent Publishing, 2014), p. 143-158.

Angela Odoms-Young, “Factors that Influence Body Image Representations of Black Muslim Women”, Social Science & Medicine, 66/12 (2008), pp. 2573-2584

Elisha P. Renne (editor), Veiling in Africa (2013)

Carolyn Moxley Rouse, Engaged Surrender: African American Women and Islam (2004).

Dorothea Schulz, “Renewal and Enlightenment: Muslim Women’s Biographic Narratives of Personal Reform in Mali”, Journal of Religion in Africa, 41/1 (2011), pp. 93-123

Abdoulaye Sounaye, “‘Go Find the Second Half of Your Faith with these Women!’: Women Fashioning Islam in Contemporary Niger”, The Muslim World, 101/3 (July 2011), pp. 539-554

Daa’iyah Taha, “The Sacred Journey: The Gift of Hajj”, in Gloria Wade-Gayles (ed.), My Soul is a Witness: African-American Women’s Spirituality, (2002), pp. 266-271

Amina Wadud, “Hajar: Of the Desert” http://feminismandreligion.com/2013/10/17/hajar-of-the-desert-by-amina-wadud/