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A feminist Islam?

We explore the progressive, feminist ideas emerging from Muslim women in some Western countries

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In some European countries, including Germany, Switzerland, England and Denmark, and also in the USA, groups of Muslim women are introducing a new, feminist version of their faith. In so-called ‘feminist mosques’, founded entirely or partly by women, female imams lead Friday prayers, give sermons and, in a major break with tradition, women and men regularly pray together.

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