Introductory matters

Between Text and Practice: Considerations in the Anthropological Study of Islam, Ronald A. Lukens-Bull(alt)	Joan Wallach Scott, "Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis (PDF link) (alt.link)
Gerda Lerner, The Creation of Patriarchy (Excerpts)
Orientalist Images	The Veil as a Political Metaphor

Popular biographical accounts of female sahabah

`A'isha bt. Abu Bakr	Fatima bt. Muhammad	Umm Salamah
Ramla bt. Abu Sufyan	Rumaysa bt. Milhan	Baraka, the Abyssinian slave
Asma'a bt. Abu Bakr	links to biographies of other sahabah	links to other sahabah

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?"-	Prof. Abdur Rahman I. Doi, "Women in the Quran and the Sunna"
Jamal A. Badawi, The Status of Women in Islam	Jamal A. Badawi, Gender Equity in Islam
Wedding traditions (Balch Institute) (alt.server)	Images of Veils (v. Schlegell)  alt.server
Knut S. Vikør, "The Shari'a and the nation state: who can codify the divine law?"(alt server)	Qur'anic references to women
Women in Hadith	The Veil as a Political Metaphor. Colonialist Period & Post Colonialist Period & the Struggle over Hijab (alt. server)
Al-Hibri on Lewinsky affair (alt. site)	Links to "Women in Islam."
WOMEN IN ISLAM VERSUS WOMEN IN THE JUDEO-CHRISTIAN TRADITION: THE MYTH & THE REALITY	Usama bin Ladin's 1998 "Fatwah"
Rita Gross on Diversity: RELIGIOUS DIVERSITY: SOME IMPLICATIONS FOR MONOTHEISM by Rita M. Gross

Primary Resources  on Islam:

Warning: Please do not rely exclusively on these texts in their electronic form.  These texts suffer from many mistakes, spelling- and translation errors, are poorly edited, and often give an incomplete matn of a particular hadith.   The Library has each of these collections (as well as others) in English translation; although these translations are not perfect either, at least they are more complete, contain fewer errors, and oftentimes clarify a particular hadith for the reader.

Additional Readings:

Nuh Ha Mim Keller, "Concept of Bid'a in Sharia'"	Nuh Ha Mim Keller, "What is a Madhhab?"
William Millward, "THE RISING TIDE OF ISLAMIC FUNDAMENTALISM (I)"	William Millward, "THE RISING TIDE OF ISLAMIC FUNDAMENTALISM (II)"
Dina Ibrahim, "Marriage or Education, a Dilemma for Saudi  Women."	"Absence: Traveling to Iran after twelve years," by Laleh Khalili (The Iranian, September 1997)
"CAUGHT IN THE MIDDLE: WOMEN IN LEBANON," By Ghada Khouri, Lebanon (alt. server)	Feminist Theory Website, created by Dr. Kristin Switala (plethora of links on theory, geography, religion etc.)

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