Introductory matters

Gerda Lerner, The Creation of Patriarchy (Excerpts)
Orientalist Images	The Veil as a Political Metaphor

Basics

How to perform Salat	Hajj step by step
On Abortion in Islam	al-Misri on Women and the Sacred	Is Female Circumcision Required

Readings:

Index to personages in history, Qur'an, and Hadith (Warning: This organization is often engaging in polemics, the site might nevertheless be useful.)	Feminism and Islam: Legal and Literary Perspectives, Introduction, by Mai Yamani (alt. server)
	Review: Feminism and Islam (alt. server)
Excerpts from the Qur'an	J. Schacht, "Law and Justice"
Hajj: The Journey of a Lifetime	The five pillars of Islam
Dr. Lois Lamya' Al-Faruqi, "Islamic Traditions and the Feminist Movement: Confrontation or Cooperation?"-
Knut S. Vikør, "The Shari'a and the nation state: who can codify the divine law?"(alt server)
Women in Hadith	The Veil as a Political Metaphor. Colonialist Period & Post Colonialist Period & the Struggle over Hijab (alt. server)
	"Absence: Traveling to Iran after twelve years," by Laleh Khalili (The Iranian, September 1997)
WOMEN IN ISLAM VERSUS WOMEN IN THE JUDEO-CHRISTIAN TRADITION: THE MYTH & THE REALITY	Feminist Theory Website, created by Dr. Kristin Switala (plethora of links on theory, geography, religion etc.)
Rita Gross on Diversity: RELIGIOUS DIVERSITY: SOME IMPLICATIONS FOR MONOTHEISM by Rita M. Gross

Audio:

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Video clips:

British women on niqab	Niqabitch (French women protesting hijab ban
Saudi cleric calls for burqa for baby girls	BBC: Muslim Woman Athletes at 2012 Olympics
Iranian Chador Fashion designs (Reuters)	Shahl Haeri on Chador in Iran
Press TV: Turkish hijab ban

Overheads:

Life of Muhammad I	Life of Muhammad II
Life of Muhammad III	Marriages of Muhammad
Qur'an, theologically	Significant Women
The Qur'an: Technical Observations	Qur'an context and theology
Traditional Reading of Genesis 2-3	Genealogical Chart of Quraysh (PDF)
Sharia	Rightly Guided Caliphs, Early Conquests
Ghusl and wudu'	Madhhabs